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The inbetweeners
Third collaboration of 2025 between well-credentialled duo knocks gently on the doors of perception.
By Victoria Segal.
Double take: Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe mind the gap.
Cecily Eno
Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe
★★★★★
Liminal
VERVE. CD/DL/LP
IF ANYONE can get away with calling a record Liminal, it’s Brian Eno. While it’s generally a word best left for unhelpful labels on art exhibits, here it operates as a kind of verbal remix, an echo of its two predecessors, Lateral and Luminal. Eno’s first two collaborations with the tech-minded, eco-alert multi-disciplinary artist Beatie Wolfe were released simultaneously in June: Lateral (“space music,” say its creators) documented eight ambient versions of the looped track Big Empty Country, while Luminal (“dream music”), built around one electric guitar, moved through more clear-edged song-based forms, like Slapp Happy bundled up with Primal Scream, or The Velvet Underground gone West.