The Ship (album)
The Ship | ||||
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Studio album by Brian Eno | ||||
Released | 29 April 2016 | |||
Genre | Ambient, electronic | |||
Length | 47:30 | |||
Label | Warp | |||
Producer | Brian Eno, Peter Chilvers | |||
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Singles from The Ship | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 78/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Arts Deck | [3] |
The A.V. Club | A−[4] |
Pitchfork Media | 8.0/10[5] |
Mojo | [6] |
Rolling Stone | [7] |
Q | [8] |
Uncut | [9] |
Slant Magazine | [10] |
The Independent | [11] |
The Ship is a studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released on 29 April 2016 on Warp Records.[12] It was announced on Eno's website on 24 February 2016. The album is Eno's first solo album to contain vocals since 2005's Another Day on Earth.[13] The Ship debuted at number 28 on the UK Albums Chart and became Eno's highest-charting album since My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)[citation needed].
Background
Brian Eno has said the title is a reference to the sinking of Titanic, which he has called "the apex of human technical power, set to be Man's greatest triumph over nature".[13] The album was originally conceived as a multi channel sound installation, when Eno discovered that he could sing in a low C: "As you get older, you know, your voice drops, so you sort of gain a semi-tone at the bottom and lose about six at the top every year. That's what's happened to me. So I've suddenly got this new, low voice I can sing with, and I just started singing with that piece. And, so it was the first time I thought, "Oh, what about making a song that you could walk around inside?".[14]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Brian Eno, except "Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free" written and composed by Eno and Lou Reed.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Ship" | 21:19 |
2. | "Fickle Sun (i)" | 18:03 |
3. | "Fickle Sun (ii) The Hour Is Thin" | 2:50 |
4. | "Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free" | 5:18 |
Total length:
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47:30 |
Japanese bonus track | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
5. | "Away" | 6:53 |
- "Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free" is a cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Set Free", from their third studio album The Velvet Underground.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from The Ship liner notes.[15]
- Brian Eno – producer, recording
- Peter Chilvers – co-producer, recording, programming, keyboards, vocoder
- Leo Abrahams – guitar (track 4)
- Jon Hopkins – keyboards (track 4)
- Nell Catchpole – violin, viola (track 4)
- Nuria Homs – voice (track 1)
- Members of the Elgin Marvels – voice (track 1)
- Peter Serafinowicz – voice (track 3)
Charts
Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[16] | 44 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[17] | 91 |
Irish Albums (IRMA)[18] | 68 |
UK Albums (OCC)[19] | 28 |
US Billboard 200[20] | 175 |
See also
References
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- ↑ The sprawling opening (title) track commencing with familiarly tremulous, slow-motion synths inexorably rising and falling, oscillating between exquisite consonance and transient dissonance. [May 2016, p.94]
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- ↑ This is magnificent. [Apr 2016, p.105]
- ↑ The Ship successfully combines--surprisingly for the first time--his ambient and song-based work. [Jun 2016, p.73]
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- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Brian Eno Announces Titanic-Inspired Solo LP 'The Ship'
- ↑ Brian Eno on Kanye West, David Bowie and His Immersive LP 'The Ship'
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- ↑ "Ultratop.be – Brian Eno – The Ship" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Ultratop.be – Brian Eno – The Ship" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 18, 2016". Chart-Track. IRMA. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ↑ "Brian Eno – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Brian Eno. Retrieved May 10, 2016.