Day-yum! Just when you thought it was safe to stop pretending to like ambient music, here comes Brian “The Bald Bull” Eno, charging hard to the house with a new solo album for the Warp label! This shit’s called LUX, because, say it with me, now: this man is All. About. The. Razzle. Dazzle! Woooo, you know that it’s true! LUX is the Bald Bull’s first solo album for the Warp team and his first solo album since 2005’s Another Day on Earth, and yo, if I can holler out to his press release for a minute, y’all, this shit finds him “expanding upon the types of themes and sonic textures that were present on such classic albums as Music For Films, Music For Airports and Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks.” You just can’t make this stuff up! And folks, this thing will be comin’ at you IN EYE-POPPING 3D on vinyl (Double 180g LP in gatefold sleeve with 4 x 300x300mm prints and download redemption code card) November 11 and CD (in gatefold sleeve with 4 x 120x120mm prints) and download on November 13. Now that’s what I call skills to pay the BILLS, kids. Oh, how sweet it is!
But that ain’t all, folks! Not by a long shot. This. Man. Is. Re. Lent. Less. Unlike his first two joints with Warp, (Small Craft on a Milk Sea with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams and Drums Between the Bells with Rick Holland), my man also sees the new album “as a continuation of his “Music for Thinking” project that includes Discreet Music (1975) and Neroli (1993).” Specifically, it’s a “76 minute composition in twelve sections that evolved from a work currently housed in the Great Gallery of the Palace of Venaria in Turin, Italy.” Hell yeah, what’d I tell ya? The Bald Bull is RELENTLESS! Maybe that’s why any time this powerhouse of a man does anything out there on the court, I’m all up here in the press box going “Sonic BOOOOOOM!”
Sonic BOOOOOOOM (LUX tracklist):
01. LUX 1 (19:22)
02. LUX 2 (18:14)
03. LUX 3 (19:19)
04. LUX 4 (18:28)
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