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| Released | 26 June 1995[1] | |||
| Recorded | January – March 1995 | |||
| Studio | The Racket Club (Buckinghamshire, England) | |||
| Length | 51:25[nb 1] | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
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Afraid of Sunlight is Marillion's eighth studio album, released in 1995. It was their last for EMI (who would, however, continue to release back-catalogue material on compilations and re-issues, as well as distribute some later recordings).
Afraid of Sunlight was the first Marillion studio album to fail to reach the Top 10 in the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number 16 and falling out of the Top 75 after two weeks.[2] Despite this, Afraid of Sunlight became one of the band's most critically acclaimed albums and was included in Q magazine's "Recordings of the Year" for 1995.[3] It was retrospectively described by Jeri Montesano of Allmusic as "the peak of Marillion's growing, impressive body of work" and by colleague Jason Ankeny as "the most consistent Marillion release to date".[4][5]The album is ranked at #90 on Prog Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Prog Albums of All Time.
- ^ "New Entries: Singles" (PDF). Hit Music. 10 June 1995. p. 13. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ David Roberts, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles and Albums. Guinness World Records Limited. p. 349. ISBN 978-1904994107.
- ^ "1995 Q Magazine Recordings Of The Year". Rocklist.net. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ "allmusic ((( Season's End > Overview )))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ "Marillion - Music Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
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