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MagnetFeb 14, 2017It's beautiful. [No. 139, p.55]
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Feb 6, 2017It does nothing new--its tone barely changes over the single 54-minute piece--yet it makes you feel really, really good. Always perverse, Eno achieves the most when he does the least.
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Jan 3, 2017Reflection is a product for everyone; not just the music lover. Yes, the music alone can be easily appreciated for its virtuosity; however, the whole package assists people with their day-to-day lives and provokes mindfulness and interaction with the wider world.
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Dec 21, 2016Reflection is quintessentially Eno. A beautiful, thought provoking and introspective body of work that is composed in a way that is still as unique and as radical as the man himself.
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Jan 6, 2017In composing a piece so well-defined yet so adaptable, Eno adds yet another page to ambient music canon.
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Jan 12, 2017Its an album free of ego: the mirror isn't directed towards its creator, but clearly rather towards his hope that we will catch some glimpse of ourselves in its murky, softly swirling depths.
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Jan 4, 2017This is what we have come to the expect from Eno’s ambient endeavours, and it remains as beguiling and original as ever.
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The WireDec 21, 2016Eno's striving nature and his ability to morph sounds, alter moods and conduct psychoacoustic experiments still yields weird and enjoyable fruits here. [Jan 2017, p.64]
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UncutDec 21, 2016In this case, sustained synth notes and chimes entwine to create a meditative environment that, while no longer as revolutionary as Discreet Music once seemed, is just as serene. [Feb 2017, p.26]
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Jan 4, 2017Each note acts like a pebble dropped into a pond, sending out ever widening ripples that slowly decay, but not before certain tones linger and swell until they more closely resemble drones. Listen closer and certain small frequencies emerge and flutter higher like down feathers in a draft.
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Jan 4, 2017On Reflection, Brian Eno chases the endlessness of thought through music and comes to terms with that same endlessness simultaneously--and by doing so, he allows listeners to do the same.
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Jan 3, 2017His assessment is astute; whether used as sonic wallpaper or the soundtrack for a lengthy meditation, Reflection is the kind of album useful for getting ideas percolating and nourishing interior worlds.
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Jan 3, 2017This period of Eno's has been reflective indeed and the trap doors keep opening to wider dimensions.
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Jan 5, 2017As with all of his ambient works, it's minimal and non-distracting, but there are subtle alterations and changes, and it does reward any amount of attention paid to it.
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Jan 3, 2017The result is one of his most nuanced and meticulous pieces but not one dependent on--nor effectively displaying--its little deviations.
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Feb 9, 2017It’s hardly groundbreaking in the way that Eno often was, and though it is pleasant, Reflection even falls short of the blissful ebullience present in the Eno + Hyde albums.
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Q MagazineJan 17, 2017It's an atmospheric and absorbing piece, a deep, dark pool of music. [Mar 2017, p.108]
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Jan 9, 2017It’s maybe not something to play every day, but an ideal companion piece for when you’re feeling more contemplative than usual.
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Jan 5, 2017This techno-utopian lift music, while captivating, is not exactly worthy of eternity.
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Jan 3, 2017The overall effect is deeply, magnificently peaceful, meditative, even; ambient certainly monopolises certain sections of the thesaurus.
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MojoDec 21, 2016It's pleasant enough, it hardly transcendent, and feels--whisper it--ever so slightly old fashioned. [Feb 2017, p.95]
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Jan 3, 2017It isn’t so much that this record is weak as it is well trodden, and the recipe is out.
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Feb 6, 2017Eno’s continuation of his flag-bearing series is about as ignorable as it has always been with waning levels on the side of interest.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 20
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Mixed: 3 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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