Lux
Brian Eno
Warp Records.
SCQ Rating: 84%
When Lux was billed
as Brian Eno’s “first solo album on Warp Records”, I admittedly arced an
eyebrow. It read as though the label was in some way subverting any deflated expectations
brought about by 2010’s soundtrack to that shitty Peter Jackson movie Small Craft On a Milk Sea and the pair of Rick Holland accompanied
releases, Drums Between the Bells and Panic Of Looking.
But maybe Warp
weren’t dealing in semantics, because Lux sounds precisely like Eno’s first
solo album in quite some time, a refreshingly ambient procedure that stands
proudly in the shadow of Music For Airports and several other top-notch entries
in Eno’s ambient/installation series. Beautiful, evasive, monotonous and with
the rare capacity – found among other sterile ambient albums – to elicit
foreign emotions out of thin air, Lux maintains that Eno can focus as
thoroughly as he can muck about with friends. Long live the Godfather of
Ambience.
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