I think one can call it a tradition, because Steven Wilson loves to put the most calm, sensitive and touching song at the end of an album. See the albums "Signify", "Stupid Dream", "Lightbulb Sun", "In Absentia", "Deadwing" and his solo album of course. I love them all with all my heart and it is nearly impossible to pick a favourit out of these "last songs" (probably "Collapse the Light into Earth", for when I hear it my heart isn't just beating, but rather standing still).
All, what this man is able to convey (emotion-wise) and to do with the listener through music, finds its overwhelming climax in the last song of each one of the mentioned records, I think.
Except for "Dark Matter" all these songs have the leitmotif "relationship" (mostly broken) as well as "future fears", I would say.
I think one can call it a tradition, because Steven Wilson loves to put the most calm, sensitive and touching song at the end of an album. See the albums "Signify", "Stupid Dream", "Lightbulb Sun", "In Absentia", "Deadwing" and his solo album of course. I love them all with all my heart and it is nearly impossible to pick a favourit out of these "last songs" (probably "Collapse the Light into Earth", for when I hear it my heart isn't just beating, but rather standing still). All, what this man is able to convey (emotion-wise) and to do with the listener through music, finds its overwhelming climax in the last song of each one of the mentioned records, I think.
Except for "Dark Matter" all these songs have the leitmotif "relationship" (mostly broken) as well as "future fears", I would say.