Brian Eno - The Ship Review (Album Review)

Rating: 90/100 - Genre: Electronic Avant-Garde

Brian Eno is enjoying an invigorating renaissance. Some resent his role in Coldplay’s continuing existence, while others consider him a mere ambient producer; though 2012’s Lux offered 75 minutes of drifting meditation, his collaborations this last decade with David Byrne, Underworld’s Karl Hyde and poet Rick Holland have flaunted his considerable musical range. 2005’s fabulous Another Day On Earth found Eno singing again after two decades, and it’s his voice that provides the spine to this remarkable four-track collection. The Ship began life as a gallery sound installation, but Eno’s voice now fl oats, unmoored, throughout the title track’s ghostly 20 minutes before drifting into Fickle Sun (i), its dramatic blasts of brass like threatening thunder. Peter Serafi nowicz then arrives on Fickle Sun (ii) to recite two minutes of computer-generated poetry, but it’s the cover of The Velvet Underground’s I’m Set Free which steals the show: tenderly imbued with an astonishing sentiment that makes it perfect funeral accompaniment, it stands, quite simply, as fi ve of the most poignant minutes ever recorded, Eno’s baritone multitracked to offer unforgettably moving gospel harmonies. For this alone, The Ship is, frankly, a masterpiece.
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