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Brooklyn Vegan OCTOBER 10, 2025 - by Bill Pearis

BRIAN ENO & BEATIE WOLFE: LIMINAL

The third album this year from Eno and Wolfe finds them drifting beautifully between worlds

Having already released two collaborative albums this year - the song-based Luminal and the ambient Lateral - Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are making it a hat trick. Their new record, Liminal, splits the difference between those two approaches. "Liminal stands at the point of convergence between Lateral and Luminal," they say. "If Lateral is a kind of landscape painting, a sonic place, Luminal is a dream-like awakening, a feeling space. Liminal, the newest addition, is a hybrid of the two - a strange new land with a human living and feeling its way through its mysterious spaces."

As its title suggests, Liminal exists on the border between song and non-song - "or 'nong,' as we call it," Brian and Beatie whimsically note - where "the listener is exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world, as yet unclaimed and still ambiguous." There are moments of structure, with vocals, melodies, and hooks, but the pair aren't afraid to let those creations slowly dissolve into the ether. Liminal is a lovely place to lose yourself in - or simply float away.