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Review Summary: For Eno. Brian Eno has never really dabbled into the cohesive. With the exception of a few of his ambient albums, he's never made an album that told a story or was ever particularly linear. On his magnum opus Another Green World, Eno crafted short, loosely written songs that dabbled into all sorts of moods and quirks, but always ended before you could make out what it was really all about. It was like small scenes and skits quickly presented and faded out, only to bring about new moods and textures. His film-inspired pieces are not for conventional music fans, hell they may not even be for music fans. Eno's solo work presents itself in the deepest fashion to fans of art, people who see cinema, photography, music all as intertwining forces, amalgamating to create something bigger. Small Craft On A Milk Sea embodies all of those components into a larger, darker, perhaps schizophrenic picture. It's Eno's most aleatoric work yet, the melodies created by jotting down random chords and blindly organizing them onto a white board. The music presents a brilliant contradiction, almost all of the parts improvised only to be constructed and edited into massive soundscapes. The most free elements are the electronics on this record, which drone and rise and color the programmed, heavy percussion with passion. After the album's opening piano piece ends, it moves on into uncharted territory, building through noise-rock aesthetic and messy electronics that peak at "Paleosonic", only to build down and sooth through the last six tracks of gentle drones and moody ambience.
Small Craft On A Milk Sea is like the Ludovico technique applied in an album format, in the sense that different motifs are introduced and flashed by through the 55 minute period of this album. The songs have a manner of coming and going that makes the album digestible, pleasant to hear all the way through. The LP is a dark listen when one is truly immersed in the sounds, but it finds gentle flourishes such as the quiet vocal samples in "Written, Forgotten" or the juxtaposition of guitar noise and percussion on "2 Forms of Anger" that keeps the album alive. Through the loose and random collaborations with fellow musicians Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins, Eno has produced perhaps his most immense work yet. Being the mind that he is, Eno's newest record is one that only reveals its brilliant nature for people with an abstract perspective. This is art music for art fans and it's gorgeous.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
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it's not even my aoty. but I had to pay my respects and recognize the album for what it is.
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Whoa if this is this good I want it!
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idk a lot of people might find it a tad boring. however if you're into any eno, check it out
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well, you see, I love ambient music. But (I know it's ridiculous) I haven't listened to any Eno...
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omg. well yeah i would check out his classic like another green world, ambient 1, his collabs with byrne, some of the more ambient work, etc.
or you could check this out first, do whatevs
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should probably get this
good stuff
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cheers
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yeah heard this ,not a 5 but still very good
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Question, did you sign the love letter with your own semen?
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yah i did
and yeah its not a 5 musically for me, around more of a 4-4.5, but it's pretty much what i wanted and it sort of sums up everything i love about eno
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cool man, I'll start with Another Green World and Ambient 1 and move on to this
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ugh "horse" is so good
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thanks man. i personally prefer shorter reviews, haha you can tell that by reading my review of the books
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1. i've never listened to any brian eno, where should i start?
2. ohhhhh you're eno and you love brian eno
3. would i like this?
4. okay that's it.
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it's not really your type of thing, but by all means check it out.
as far as eno listening goes, check out another green world, my life in the bush of ghosts, before and after science, ambient 1, and here come the warm jets.
also he's got a lot of great ambient albums with robert fripp from king crimson, those are great as well
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eh i'm gonna change the summary(makes the review out to be more ridiculous then it is)
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Sweet little succinct review, pos'd. I'm a huge Eno fan so I'll definitely be checking this bad boy out.
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I keep Apollo at all times on my mp3 player
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enough about your boobs
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enough about your boobs
touche adam clowner
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