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Drawn From Life
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  • Summary: The first album in four years (since 1997's 'The Drop') for Brian Eno finds the legendary musician/producer paired for the first time with German DJ/percussionist J. Peter Schwalm. Longtime Eno friend Laurie Anderson provides vocals on one song, although most of the thirteen tracks areThe first album in four years (since 1997's 'The Drop') for Brian Eno finds the legendary musician/producer paired for the first time with German DJ/percussionist J. Peter Schwalm. Longtime Eno friend Laurie Anderson provides vocals on one song, although most of the thirteen tracks are atmospheric, soundtrack-like instrumentals (some with strings). Believe it or not, Eno will be performing live in support of the album, with at least one scheduled date (at the Fuji Rock Festival on 29 July 2001).… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Launch.com
    90
    Surreal and disquieting, yet comforting, Drawn From Life chills your bones while it lulls you to sleep.
  2. PopMatters
    80
    His best album in years.
  3. 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.
  4. Billboard
    80
    Drawn From Life features some of Eno's most tightly structured and accessible music in years.
  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Pitchfork
    54
    It's impeccably recorded-- pretty at some points and vaguely somber at others-- but it never distinguishes itself.

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

Awards & Rankings

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#76 Best Album of 2001

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