Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK
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Uncut OCTOBER 2005 - by Stephen Dalton

HAROLD BUDD & BRIAN ENO: THE PEARL

New airing for ambient emperor's exquisitely tailored clothes.

First released in 1984, The Pearl is widely considered an ambient landmark. All slo-mo pianos and serene nocturnal hush, it's undoubtedly lovely, but rather languidly and pointlessly so. Eno's best work arises when stretching and subverting collaborators who inhabit more populist, unyielding terrain - from Ferry to Bowie to U2. By contrast, his partnership with avant-minimalist Budd produces an overly tasteful abstraction that eventually proves tedious. Sporadically mesmerising but largely decorative, The Pearl is the musical equivalent of a lava lamp.


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