Steve Hackett - The Circus And The Nightwhale

180-gram vinyl

Steve Hackett celebrates more than 50 years of music with his conceptual studio album The Circus and the Nightwhale

New for 2024 from legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett, The Circus And The Nightwhale is a rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the center of it. The Circus And The Nightwhale's' 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his 30th solo release: "I love this album. It says the things I've been wanting to say for a very long time."

The album is Steve's first in more than two years. It follows the beautiful acoustic LP Under A Mediterranean Sky from January 2021 — which rose to No 2 on the U.K. Classical chart — and, in September of that year, his metallic masterpiece Surrender Of Silence, which hit the U.K. Top 40. His 2023 live album, Foxtrot At Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton, reached No 2 on the rock & metal chart. Steve's new LP promises ballads, blues, blistering progressive rock... and healthy measures of theatre and fantasia.