Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R)

Promotion

As with many of their recent albums, Marillion used crowdfunding to finance this album, this time using PledgeMusic. The campaign offered various options of pre-ordering the album—called only by the code name M18 at that time—including CD, download only, and a limited Ultimate Edition box, containing, among others, a Blu-ray Disc containing a making-of-the-album film. Originally the album was slated to be released on 1 May 2016, but was later postponed to 9 September, and again to 23 September.

On 8 April, Marillion revealed the album's cover art and announced the title of the album as Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R). Singer Steve Hogarth commented on the title, saying,

”This title is adopted not in anger or with any intention to shock. It is adopted and sung (in the song "New Kings”) tenderly, in sadness and resignation inspired by an England, and a world, which increasingly functions on an “Every man for himself” philosophy. I won’t bore you with examples, they’re all over the newspapers every day. There’s a sense of foreboding that permeates much of this record. I have a feeling that we’re approaching some kind of sea-change in the world – an irreversible political, financial, humanitarian and environmental storm. I hope that I’m wrong. I hope that my FEAR of what “seems” to be approaching is just that, and not FEAR of what “is” actually about to happen.”

On 7 July, customers of the PledgeMusic campaign received access to download the song suite The New Kings, and an edited version of the song was made available to the public on Marillion's YouTube channel.

Reception

The album peaked at #4 in the UK, marking the band's highest chart position since Clutching at Straws in 1987.

Track listing

Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R) was released as a standard CD, a multi-channel Super Audio CD, and also as a 33⅓ rpm double vinyl LP with a slightly different track order.

All songs written by Marillion.

CD edition

1. "I. Long-Shadowed Sun" – 1:16
2. "II. The Gold" – 6:13
3. "III. Demolished Lives" – 2:23
4. "IV. F E A R" – 4:07
5. "V. The Grandchildren of Apes" – 2:35

6. "Living in F E A R" – 6:25

7. "I. Wake Up in Music" – 4:27
8. "II. The Remainers" – 1:34
9. "III. Vapour Trails in the Sky" – 4:49
10. "IV. The Jumble of Days" – 4:20
11. "V. One Tonight" – 3:56

12. "White Paper" – 7:18

13. "I. Fuck Everyone and Run" – 4:22
14. "II. Russia's Locked Doors" – 6:24
15. "III. A Scary Sky" – 2:33
16. "IV. Why Is Nothing Ever True?" – 3:24

17. "Tomorrow's New Country" – 1:47

Band members