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- Summary: The former member of Roxy Music brings his ambient melodies back with a new album, featuring spoken word from Rick Holland.
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Club/Dance
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Positive: 17 out of 32
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Mixed: 15 out of 32
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Negative: 0 out of 32
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Aug 18, 2011If Small Craft on a Milk Sea was an installation piece in the museum of Brian Eno's career, requiring rapt attention to find meaning, Drums Between the Bells is modern art that immediately captures those witnessing it in a state of aesthetic arrest.
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Aug 22, 2011It is, frankly, classic Eno. Holland too emerges from it well, though his contributions tend to be less immediate.
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Aug 22, 2011All the same, Drums Between the Bells makes for a richly atmospheric listen, one that allows the listener to cut the cord from reality and float off into a beautifully curated space.
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Aug 18, 2011The problem with it, beyond a handful of unflattering genre excursions, is a slight but persistent thinness of imagination.
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Q MagazineAug 19, 2011Holland's fragmentary syntax, rendered in a variety of heavily treated voices, rarely proves as mesmeric as the music. [Aug 2011, p.116]
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Aug 18, 2011It's pleasant enough, but sometimes the words do rather get in the way.
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Aug 22, 2011The combination of Eno's obsession with stasis and his attachment to novelty for its own sake does the album in.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Sep 29, 2011
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