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Lonely Planet
The 74-year-old ambient grandee ruminates on an imperilled globe.
By David Sheppard.
Eno: he knows, you know.
Brian Eno
★★★★
FOREVERANDEVER NOMORE
UMC. CD/DL/LP
IN AUGUST of last year, Brian and brother Roger Eno accepted an invitation to perform live at Athens’ Epidaurus Festival, nominally in support of their 2020 collaboration Mixing Colours. The city was melting in 45-degree heat, the surrounding hills aflame, and while the dystopian backdrop may have rendered the duo’s hypnagogic aquatint instrumentals somewhat incongruous, it certainly reinforced the message behind a brace of Brian’s new songs also debuted that evening: Garden Of Stars and There Were Bells. Both feature on what is officially his 22nd solo album, and are, like everything here, predicated on feelings about the climate emergency and “our narrowing, precarious future”.