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9.1
86313
9.1 |
A.V. Club
The Ship is a thrilling album, emotionally draining in parts, but more than worth the struggle
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9.0
86589
9.0 |
musicOMH
The boldness, change of direction and sheer level of high musical attainment makes it hard not to compare it to another album released this year by a contemporary of Eno, namely Blackstar by David Bowie
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8.5
86607
8.5 |
Beardfood
Calling back to his 1975 album ‘Another Green World’ and teaming it with 2012’s ‘Lux’. A potent mix
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8.0
86454
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
By far the most accessible and pop-sounding recordings he has recorded in years, here the ship Eno references might serve the dual function as symbolising his own soul finding tranquility in the music once again
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8.0
86470
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Eno continues to explore the unlimited possibilities
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8.0
86476
8.0 |
Resident Advisor
In its mix of words and ambient passages, The Ship might be better summarized as a return voyage to Another Green World
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8.0
86549
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Breaks subtle ground by further fractalizing Brian Eno’s creative processes, taking two of his essential forms and blending them methodically into a new kind of strange pop
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8.0
86392
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album's chief strength is its fine balance of the concrete and the abstract
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8.0
86308
8.0 |
Pitchfork
One of his best solo albums in a while, walking the line between pure ambiance and vocal-driven pop
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8.0
86309
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
He has managed once again to take listeners somewhere thrilling and new, while rising to the challenge of adding another dimension to a distinctive career filled with innovation and originality
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8.0
86317
8.0 |
The Independent
A strange amalgam of Eno’s familiar ambient approach with poetry
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8.0
86321
8.0 |
Uncut
Joining the dots between Eno’s art-rock roots and his latter day private obsession with gospel music. Print edition only
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8.0
86322
8.0 |
Q
This is magnificent. Print edition only
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8.0
86375
8.0 |
The FT
It is a fine meditation on themes of randomness, technology and human agency
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8.0
86382
8.0 |
The Quietus
The Ship is the work of someone who fully believes in the power of art as an empathic tool, as a means to invoke a particular viewpoint, an unconsidered perspectiv
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8.0
86311
8.0 |
All Music
His relentless sense of adventure remains undiminished by time
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7.0
86325
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
One of his most accessible albums in recent years
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6.7
86384
6.7 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Nothing wrong with staying in a mood, but this mood—whatever it is—sounds pretty played-out to me
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6.7
86318
6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
Finds Eno’s music again foregoing the linear conventions of music and creating a kind of shapeless yet directed sound experience instead
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6.5
86720
6.5 |
Earbuddy
At times, it is one of the most exciting, liberating albums of the year, and at others, it is dreadful and pretentious
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6.0
86998
6.0 |
Exclaim
Challenging and unconventional
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6.0
86323
6.0 |
Mojo
The sprawling opening track commencing with familiarly tremulous, slow-motion synths inexorably rising and falling, oscillating between exquisite consonance and transient dissonance. Print edition only
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6.0
86315
6.0 |
The Guardian
Eno’s latest aims to dispense with traditional song structures but is at its most captivating when tending back towards them
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6.0
86383
6.0 |
Under The Radar
The Ship sees Eno try his hand with the darker, cinematic side of minimal, and for the most part it works
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6.0
86359
6.0 |
DIY
Musically the album sees Eno creating a sound that’s frequently panoramic and dislocating
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6.0
86360
6.0 |
Evening Standard
An ambient collection lacking warmth
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6.0
86380
6.0 |
The Observer
Eno remains one of the great shape shifters
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5.0
86310
5.0 |
The Music
Eno's high concepts and noble intentions lead him down into an unprofitable abyss of woozy drones and impenetrable free verse
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4.0
86319
4.0 |
The Irish Times
It’s all very ruminative, with little space for any colour beyond black and grey
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4.0
86399
4.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Its first two tracks take up 39 minutes of the album’s total 47 but pass out of memory almost before they’re finished
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