Drawn From Life
by Brian Eno and Peter Schwalm
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Billboard
    80
    Drawn From Life features some of Eno's most tightly structured and accessible music in years.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    No, it's not visionary, but few know how to tenderly calibrate a digital landscape as skillfully as Eno. [6/1/01, p.91]
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  3. Launch.com
    90
    Surreal and disquieting, yet comforting, Drawn From Life chills your bones while it lulls you to sleep.
  5. Magnet
    60
    Eno brings interesting and complex rhythmic counterpoints to his 3-a.m. atmospherics.... It all sounds so very sleepy in the end, and quite numbing, in a most uncomfortable way. [#51, p.92]
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  6. Pitchfork
    54
    It's impeccably recorded-- pretty at some points and vaguely somber at others-- but it never distinguishes itself.
  7. PopMatters
    80
    His best album in years.
  8. The A.V. Club
    80
    While Drawn From Life doesn't maintain the thematic unity that makes Discreet Music and On Land classic ambient Eno excursions, it does benefit from more direction than in his most recent works.
  9. The Wire
    80
    They're both adept at the refined art of turning nothing new into something memorable. [#207, p.61]
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Awards & Rankings

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#76 Best Album of 2001

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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. BryanW.
    Sep 26, 2001
    8
    Another Eno soundtrack - you create the film.
  2. FilipL.
    Aug 5, 2001
    8
    Richly structured. Haunting. Intense. European. Concise. Futuristic yet traditional. Analog. Restless.
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