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Aug 22, 2011The effect is softly inclusive without being entirely bland, and even if Holland's poetry doesn't ring your bell as poetry, then it certain works in this context as sound-art.
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Aug 22, 2011The cadences, demeanors and vocal tones certainly add an interesting wrinkle to Eno's dynamic, but a few exceptions aside, I'm generally too enraptured in his rich compositions to decipher the staggered wordplay.
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Aug 22, 2011The record, lacking choruses or pop hooks, isn't one to turn to for instant gratification. Instead, it's an engaging marriage of words and music.
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Aug 22, 2011The glitch distortions and keyboard drones are well chosen, even when guest readers (including a woman from Eno's gym) prove hit and miss.
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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 22, 2011Holland's muse guides the album, and his ultra-serious counterculturalisms can be a drag after a while.
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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, 2011The decision to vary the speaking participants helps distinguish each piece, and gives the album just the hint of variety it needs.
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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 18, 2011The problem with it, beyond a handful of unflattering genre excursions, is a slight but persistent thinness of imagination.
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Aug 18, 2011Like many of Eno's projects, Drums Between the Bells skips around fitfully off a loose central theme, leaving room for big stylistic gaps and a little bit of dead space.
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Aug 18, 2011An equally engaging sonic concept entitled Drums Between The Bells.
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The WireAug 23, 2011Everything is warm and accessible, occasionally too much so. [Jul 2011, p.48]
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Aug 22, 2011At times Drums Between The Bells is too busy, too packed with musical style and incident, but its patchwork nature reveals itself over subsequent listens to be a largely rewarding one.
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Aug 22, 2011The newly minted Drums Between the Bells with poet Rick Holland, don't break ground, but serve as pleasant place-holders for Eno obsessives.
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UncutAug 19, 2011Drums Between The Bells captures Eno in versatile and intricate mode. [Aug 2011, p.82]
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Aug 18, 2011Drums Between The Bells is challenging and complex, but evocative, rewarding, and not altogether fragmentary, not even (or especially) when you bust up the long-playing order.