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Dec 8, 2011As an EP running at about 16 and a half minutes, Panic of Looking's brevity acts as a drawback; just as you're beginning to really soak it in, the EP suddenly reaches its conclusion.
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Nov 16, 2011Though Eno is adequate, moments where he takes over the collaboration (such as on "West Bay" and "Watch a Single Swallow . . . ") are too under-nourished and ponderous to suggest that he's giving us something new.
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Nov 14, 2011In Panic of Looking, he keeps speech in the realm of analog, not digital, and still makes it into music.
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Nov 11, 2011It attempts to create a context of isolation from all that, an aquarium-like zone of contemplation, in which audiovisual detail can be savoured, in stillness and without fear of missing out for a few seconds on the relentless info-stream of modern life.
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Nov 11, 2011Yes these notes may occasionally be pretty, and delicate, but for that kind of money you expect something spectacular and groundbreaking, something either heart-wrenching or extravagantly euphoric. What you really have is a record with all the spirit of Microsoft Excel.
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Nov 11, 2011If all of this sounds more geared toward Eno completists and poetry fans than the general listener, that's about right.
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Nov 11, 2011In all, it represents a beautiful set of ambience from one of the form's masters.
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Nov 11, 2011This music is mysterious and spectral. It's quite unshakeable.
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Nov 11, 2011Four months later comes this follow-up EP, Panic of Looking, showing off the same arcane package of circumstantial synthesizer jitters banging against a bunch of I-get-this-poem-and-you-don't kind of prose.
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Jan 6, 2012This EP still feels like a small plate of leftovers from a meal that promised more than it delivered, as though Wolfgang Puck was on the can, not in the kitchen.
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Dec 20, 2011Eno appreciators who maintain a sense of trust in everything he does will definitely want to add this to their collection.