The Ship (Remastered 2023) Brian Eno

• 1 The Ship (Remastered 2023) 21:19
• 2 Fickle Sun (i) (Remastered 2023) 18:04
• 3 Fickle Sun (ii) The Hour Is Thin (Remastered 2023) 02:50
• 4 Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free (Remastered 2023) 05:18
• Total Runtime 47:31

Info for The Ship (Remastered 2023)

"The Ship" is Eno’s first solo record since 2012’s Grammy-nominated LUX. Originally conceived from experiments with three dimensional recording techniques and formed in two, interconnected parts, The Ship is almost as much musical novel as traditional album. Eno brings together beautiful songs, minimalist ambience, physical electronics, omniscient narratives and technical innovation into a single, cinematic suite. The result is the very best of Eno, a record without parallel in his catalogue. The album opens with the 21-minute eponymously titled “The Ship” on which Eno’s cyclically sung sea-chant builds in ominous drama, followed by “Fickle Sun”, a song in three movements. The first continues where “The Ship” left but with Eno’s voice sounding more upfront, determined, even despairing.

"Humankind seems to teeter between hubris and paranoia: the hubris of our ever-growing power contrasts with the paranoia that we're permanently and increasingly under threat. At the zenith we realize we have to come down again...we know that we have more than we deserve or can defend, so we become nervous. Somebody, something is going to take it all from us: that is the dread of the wealthy. Paranoia leads to defensiveness, and we all end up in the trenches facing each other across the mud." (Brian Eno)

“The Ship is a great, unexpected record. The title track and “Fickle Sun (i)” on their own and as a connected piece of music are marvelous accomplishments, distinctive in Eno’s catalog. And “I’m Set Free” immediately ranks among the most perfect-sounding pop songs Eno has ever had a hand in making.” – Pitchfork

“The music of “The Ship” is tolling and elegiac, while “Fickle Sun,” with lyrics about the “dismal work” of a soldier’s life, is in constant metamorphosis. Electronic sounds melt into orchestral upheavals and guitar distortion; voices, natural and synthetic, loom from all directions.” – The New York Times

“The Ship is the work of someone who fully believes in the power of art as an empathic tool, as a means to invoke a particular viewpoint, an unconsidered perspective.” – The Quietus

“sits somewhere between the chilly calm of Music for Airports and the eerie evocations of the Suffolk landscape found on 1982’s On Land” – The Guardian

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)

Digitally remastered