Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Two institutions of electronic music, braininess, and design-- Brian Eno and Warp Records-- come together for their first-ever co-release.
Short but not slight, the songs on Brian Eno’s Small Craft On A Milk Sea ditch the briefly resurrected vocals of 2005’s Another Day On Earth, instead striking out for familiarly inhospitable climes and unnerving sonic textures. It’s an uncharacteristically diverse album for the electronic-music pioneer—one that grew…
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His work of the 2000s was heavily collaborational, fortunately showing him to be still curious about the varieties of musical expression -- beyond what he's been able to display while producing for U2 and Coldplay. Small Craft on a Milk Sea regains the timeless, ageless feel of his best ambient work. It stands as his first record for Warp, a label that has long worshiped at the altar of headphone electronica, although much of this album is the fruit of sessions originally recorded (but declined) for the Lovely Bones soundtrack; some of it was written and recorded by Eno and frequent collaborator Leo Abrahams while they were touring Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Eno's 2008 pop album with David Byrne. Warp has been known for quality control for over 20 years, and this one is no different -- it's the best Eno record in 20 years (although that's not saying much).
After so many years of aural lab work, it’s easy to imagine Brian Eno settling into his familiar work spot and thinking, “What now?”
Eno on Warp - cue spodfans’ cold showers worldwide. Like most things conceptual, any shortcomings are compensated for in accompanying text.
Despite its quiet release, Small Craft on a Milk Sea comes loaded with all kinds of external baggage.
Brian Eno's 25th solo album doesn't look forward, but <strong>Dave Simpson</strong> think that no bad thing