Drums Between the Bells

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Drums Between the Bells
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Studio album by
Released4 July 2011
Recorded2003–2011
Genre Electronic, experimental, ambient, spoken word
Label Warp
Brian Eno chronology
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
(2010)
Drums Between the Bells
(2011)
Panic of Looking
(2011)

Drums Between the Bells is the twenty-fourth solo studio album by Brian Eno, released on 4 July 2011 on Warp Records in CD, double CD 'hardback', double vinyl and download editions. [1] The album is based on the words of poet Rick Holland. "Glitch" was released in advance of the album, through Eno's mailing list in April 2011. [2]

Contents

In 2012 it was awarded a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 20,000 copies throughout Europe. [3] As well as Eno and Holland, the album features the voices of Grazyna Goworek, Caroline Wildi, Laura Spagnuolo, Elisha Mudly Aylie Cooke, Nick Robertson, and Anastasia Afonina. The album's design and art direction was credited to Nick Robertson, and its imagery to Eno & Robertson.

Background

Brian Eno met Rick Holland in the late 1990s, through the collaborative 'Map-Making' project. After creating their first music together in 2003, they met infrequently to work on new compositions. Following the release of Eno's Small Craft on a Milk Sea in 2010, the pair decided to complete their project. Drums Between the Bells is the result of their meetings (although their 2003 work does not appear on this album).

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The A.V. Club B− [5]
BBC Music (Positive) [6]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork Media (6.6/10) [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Slant Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Spin (5/10) [11]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [12]

Track listing

All compositions by Brian Eno, with poems written by Rick Holland.

Disc one
  1. "Bless This Space" [13] [14]
  2. "Glitch"
  3. "Dreambirds"
  4. "Pour It Out"
  5. "Seedpods"
  6. "The Real"
  7. "The Airman"
  8. "Fierce Aisles of Light"
  9. "As If Your Eyes Were Partly Closed As If You Honed the Swirl Within Them and Offered Me the World"
  10. "A Title"
  11. "Sounds Alien"
  12. "Dow"
  13. "Instant Gold" (iTunes Store bonus track)
  14. "Multimedia"
  15. "In the Future" (Japan CD bonus track)
  16. "Cloud 4"
  17. "Silence"
  18. "Breath of Crows"
Disc two (instrumentals; limited edition only)
  1. "Seeded"
  2. "Pour"
  3. "Bird Dreaming"
  4. "Itch"
  5. "Fiercer Aisles"
  6. "Real"
  7. "Spaced"
  8. "Dense Air"
  9. "Another Title"
  10. "Nikkei"
  11. "Cloud 5"
  12. "Alienated"
  13. "As If Your Eyes"
  14. "Monomedia"
  15. "Crows"

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