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- Summary: Brian Eno and poet Rick Holland return with their second release together. The six-track EP contains songs from the Drums Between Bells recording sessions.
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Ambient, Avant-Garde, Experimental Ambient, Experimental Electronic, Avant-Garde Music
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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 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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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 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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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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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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