Mark Stewart - The Fateful Symmetry - Black Vinyl

Release Date: 10th July 2026
Catalogue Number: LSTUMM517

• New pressing on retro black vinyl
• Includes 2 page insert
• You will also receive a link to download digital WAV files of the album on the release date.

The groundbreaking, enduringly influential artist Mark Stewart presents his eighth solo album ‘The Fateful Symmetry’, a vital masterwork completed shortly before his untimely passing in April 2023.

Across an illustrious career of pioneering music with The Pop Group, Mark Stewart & The Maffia and as a solo artist, Stewart has produced a seminal body of work, galvanized by the DIY ideals of punk, radical politics, protest movements, theory, philosophy, technology, art and poetry. With ‘The Fateful Symmetry’, Stewart’s abiding legacy as a ‘revered countercultural musician’ (The Guardian) is sustained, with an album as fearless and visionary as his best work.

Testifying to his prolific, unrelenting ingenuity, and signifying one of his most intimate, empowering statements, ‘The Fateful Symmetry’ is an astonishingly expressive and innovative record; a fierce and beautiful manifesto for a better world. The inimitable, titanic Mark Stewart, never normalized, always extraordinary.

Following the sold-out red vinyl edition, Mute has been requested by fans to press a black vinyl edition. Arriving on the one year anniversary of the album’s original release, reminding us of Mark's unique and enduring talent.

“Mark Stewart is my hero”- Daddy G (Massive Attack)

“A fearsome vocalist and unbelievably exciting frontman to whom I am deeply indebted” - Nick Cave

“Bristol would be a very different place artistically and politically if it not been for Mark’s influence on all of us” - Geoff Barrow (Portishead)

Side A.

1. Memory Of You
2. Neon Girl
3. This Is The Rain
4. Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime (Bébe Durmiendo Cumbia Bootleg)
5. Stable Song

Side AA.

1. Twilight’s Child
2. Crypto Religion
3. Blank Town
4. A Long Road

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