Fish Releases Weltschmerz After Delays

Fish released his latest album, titled Weltschmerz, in September 2020 following an album delay that had continued for several years prior to its release. In the process of preparing the material for the Weltschmerz album, Fish and Steve Vantsis worked together for a period of six weeks, and during those six weeks they prepared four songs in demo form for the release.

During the time that the work on the album was taking place, guitarist Robin Boult was away on tour with Howard Jones. In order to have saxophone played on the Weltschmerz album, Dave Jackson from Van der Graaf Generator was brought into the lineup of musicians specifically to play the saxophone on the recordings that were made for the album.

On the album track titled Waverley Steps, the arrangement on the recording features real brass sections along with real string sections. In relation to the different albums that he made with Marillion, Fish stated that the album titled Clutching At Straws is his favorite work among all of the albums that he made with Marillion.