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Marillion Leak Own Album to Net
September 16th, 2008
Marillion have set their new album, Happiness is the Road (due in stores on 20 October), loose on P2P sites. BBC has the story (so far).
Rock group Marillion are to make their new album available as a free download through file-sharing websites.
But a pop-up box will appear on computer screens when the tracks are first played, encouraging fans to give the band their e-mail address.
Keyboardist Mark Kelly said downloaders would be contacted with offers of gig tickets and other merchandise, to try to make some money back for the band.
“We’re willing to try new things and we want to see what happens,” he said.
Apparently, when a song is played, a window pops up with a short video giving the listener info on the new album, the forthcoming tour, and the band’s site, marillion.com. If you join their mailing list, you can get a DRM-free version of the song.
We’ll see how this goes.
I’ve listened to the first five or six songs on the album and they’re good. The band severed ties to their neo-progressive roots back in 1998 and steered a different course beginning with Radiation. From what I’ve heard of the new stuff so far, it’s very much in the vein of their last few albums. (I really enjoyed their last release, Something Else.) There’s a couple moody instrumental bits scattered amongst some rock songs that have the occasional twist or just something that keeps them from being too straightforward.
There’s a electronic press kit thingy up at YouTube:
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