Liminal (album)

Liminal
Studio album by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno
Released	10 October 2025
Genre	Avant-pop ambient art rock ambient pop electronic experimental rock
Length	45:56
Label	Verve
Producer	Brian Eno Beatie Wolfe
Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno chronology
Luminal / Lateral (2025) Liminal (2025)

Liminal is the third collaborative studio album by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno, released 10 October 2025. and described by the pair as "Dark Matter" music. ^{[1] [2]}

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100 [3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Mojo	[5]
Uncut	8/10 [6]

Liminal has received positive reviews with MOJO magazine praising it for "pushing open the portal... ^[7] " and likening its sound to "the Velvet Underground gone West", Billboard ^[8] celebrating it as "an act of hope and a rallying cry rendered in soft synths and Far Out Magazine ^[9] writing "Liminal unveils a strange beckoning power, inhabiting a fascinating digital realm of cerebral terrain."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Beatie Wolfe, Brian Eno.

Liminal track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Part Of Us"	5:16
2.	"Ringing Ocean"	3:30
3.	"The Last To Know"	2:27
4.	"Procession"	3:20
5.	"Little Boy"	4:13
6.	"Flower Women"	4:20
7.	"Shallow Form"	3:19
8.	"Before Life"	4:23
9.	"Laundry Room"	4:36
10.	"Corona"	3:54
11.	"Shudder Like Crows"	3:30
Total length:		42:58

Personnel

• Beatie Wolfe: vocals, guitars, omnichord, synthesizers, keys, melodica
• Brian Eno: backing vocals, synthesizers, keys, slide guitar, bass, omnichord

Technical personnel

• Written and performed by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno
• Produced by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe
• Mastered by Dean Martin Hovey
• Vinyl Lacquer Cut by Jeff Powell

Artwork and packaging

Design by Nick Robertson, Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno, using the original art 'Elgar ^[10] ' by Brian Eno.

Charts

Chart performance for Liminal

Chart (2025)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [11]	76

References

1. Phelan, Tom. "Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe – 'Liminal' album review: A stirring chapter in the pair's ambient folk wanderings". Far Out Magazine. Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
2. Ewing, Jerry. "Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe to broadcast new album, Liminal, into space!". Louder Magazine. Louder. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
3. "Reviews for Liminal by Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe". Metacritic . Retrieved 16 November 2025.
4. Simpson, Paul (10 October 2025). "Liminal - Brian Eno / Beatie Wolfe". AllMusic . Retrieved 16 November 2025.
5. There are meanders and lulls. Yet for a record intended to reflect and connect Lateral and Luminal, Liminal stands up on its own, not so much a final destination as a buzzy, fluid crossing-place for Eno and Wolfe's ideas. [Dec 2025, p.79]
6. Hopefully, no one other than Eno and Wolfe will use the term "nong" (non-song) to describe this bridge between the Summer's ambient Lateral and song-based Luminal. Nonetheless, these 11 songs occupy that space successfully, whether Wolfe's voice is filling out Eno's eerie soundscapes as a textural but poetic component ("Little Boy") or mere embellishment (the slow-motion "Flower Women"), or conjuring Julee Cruise ("Part Of Us"). [Dec 2025, p.30]
7. Segal, Victoria. "The inbetweeners" (Magazine). No. 385. Mojo Magazine. p. 79. Retrieved 10 October 2025. Four out of five stars
8. Bain, Katie. "Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe on Broadcasting Their New Ambient Album Into Space: 'It Felt Fitting'". Billboard. Billboard. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
9. Phelan, Tom. "Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe – 'Liminal' album review: A stirring chapter in the pair's ambient folk wanderings". Far Out Magazine. Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
10. "Elger, 2023 by Brian Eno". Paul Stolper Gallery. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
11. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 November 2025.

External links

• Liminal at Discogs (list of releases)