RECOMMENDED: Brian Eno :: Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Brian Eno has done it all. He was in Roxy Music, wrote electo-pop in the mid 70's, produced U2, and has also pioneered ambient music. Like his career, Brian Eno's newest album, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, is quite transformative. Small Craft on a Milk Sea is Eno's 400th album to date (that was a joke) and it is arguably (at least to me) up there with many of his classics, such as Ambient 1: Music for Airports or Ambient 4: On Land. My one gripe with ambient music and this album is that it takes patience and it is really difficult to listen to this album unless you listen to all of it or at least most of it at a time. I remember when "2 Forms of Anger" dropped before the album and people were psyched to hear more stuff like that, which the album doesn't really fulfill. However, unlike many other music constituents, I enjoyed the fact that the whole album doesn't sound like "2 Forms." Ambient music may often seem to sit still like wall paper, but Eno's Ambient is constantly growing and diminishing in texture; moving from a gorgeous piece of music like "Emerald and Lime" to the jurassic drone of "2 Forms of Anger" to the hypnotizing "Dust Shuffle." One must hear this album as a whole to fully grasp what is going on. To some this will not be easy, but those who give Small Craft on a Milk Sea a listen will not be disappointed. I can assure you of that.
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