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Following the release of last year’s remixed expansion of Misplaced Childhood, neo-prog rockers Marillion are jumping ahead to one of their top albums of the 1990s to reissue: 1994’s Brave, their seventh album. A 4CD/1Blu-ray box set edition of the album is due March 9.

Brave was the third Marillion album with vocalist Steve Hogarth, who replaced Fish as frontman in early 1989. A stark departure from 1991’s Holidays In Eden, their most pop-centric album, Brave told the story (based on actual events) of a girl discovered by police on England and Wales’ Severn Bridge with no memory of how she got there. Recorded over nearly a year in a French castle, the location – including recordings of nearby caves for ambience – contributed to the album’s drawn-out sense of unease. (The original vinyl edition offered two possible endings to the story, thanks to a set of double grooves on the fourth and final side.) Brave extended the band’s streak of U.K. Top 10 albums and was supported by a well-received, theatrical tour.

For this new version of Brave, Steven Wilson has remixed the original album from the multitrack tapes in both stereo and 5.1 surround. Both mixes will be available on the accompanying Blu-ray in the set and in stereo on CD alongside the original mix of the album by producer Dave Meegan. The bonus material is two discs of the band’s 1994 performance at La Cagle, Paris, newly mixed by Michael Hunter. The full performance of Brave from this set originally appeared on the double live set Made Again in 1996, and is now expanded to feature all the material apart from the album the band played that day. Additional Blu-ray extras include It All Began with the Bright Light, a new documentary on the album; three promo videos and “The Great Escape (Spiral Remake),” the dour album closer featured on the second groove of the vinyl version. (The accompanying 50-minute film for the album will unfortunately not be included.) A 5LP box will feature Wilson’s remix and the live material on vinyl.

The deluxe Brave hits stores March 9. Full package details and Amazon links are below.

Brave: Deluxe Edition (Parlophone/Rhino, 2018)

4CD/1Blu-Ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Discs 1-2: Original album – new mix by Steven Wilson (1) and original mix by Dave Meegan (2 – originally released as EMI (U.K.)/I.R.S. Records (U.S.) 72438 28032 2 5, 1994)

1. Bridge
2. Living with the Big Lie
3. Runaway
4. Goodbye to All That/Wave/Mad/The Opium Den/The Slide/Standing in the Swing
5. Hard As Love
6. The Hollow Man
7. Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury/Now Wash Your Hands
8. Paper Lies
9. Brave
10. The Great Escape/The Last of You/Fallin’ from the Moon
11. Made Again

Discs 3-4: Live At La Cigale, Paris – 4/29/1994 (Michael Hunter Remix) (original mixes of Disc 3, Tracks 2-18 released on Made Again – EMI 72438 37678 2 3 (U.K.), 1996)

1. River
2. Bridge
3. Living with the Big Lie
4. Runaway
5. Goodbye to All That
6. Wave
7. Mad
8. The Opium Den
9. The Slide
10. Standing in the Swing
11. Hard As Love
12. The Hollow Man
13. Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury
14. Now Wash Your Hands
15. Paper Lies
16. Brave
17. The Great Escape/The Last of You/Fallin’ from the Moon
18. Made Again

1. Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)
2. Slàinte Mhath
3. No One Can
4. Sympathy
5. Easter
6. Garden Party
7. Waiting to Happen
8. Hooks in You
9. The Space…

Blu-ray

• Steven Wilson remix of original album in 96/24 LPCM Stereo and 5.1 surround mix in 96/24 LPCM and DTS HD Master Audio
• It All Began with the Bright Light – Recollections of Brave (documentary)
• The Great Escape (promo video)
• The Hollow Man (promo video)
• Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury (promo video)
• The Great Escape (Spiral Remake) (bonus track from LP – EMI 72438 28032 1 8 (U.K.), 1994)