IQ-"The Wake" (1985)

Considered one of the top works of the neo-progressive, "The Wake", it was commercially weighed down by Marillion's album "Misplaced Childhood" which was released around the same time as this one.
In this second IQ album, the line of its predecessor "Tales From Lush Attic" is followed, but with better production and more careful arrangements.
On this occasion the band creates a conceptual album that deals with man crossing the threshold of death, for which musically a dark, mysterious and dire sound is distilled.
Rough treatments of many parts of the guitar, the textures of the keyboards and even the dark sound, are designed to create an emotional and gloomy density, all this endorsed by the theatrical voice of its vocalist Nicholls, who knows how to take advantage of his characteristic vocal register .