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Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Brian Eno

Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Polymath Brian Eno teams up with Jon Hopkins and composer Leo Abrahams for an album of ambient electronica.

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7.2

Label
Warp
UK Release date
15/11/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Gives us the classically transportive experience that Brian Eno excels in creating
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  2. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    Even when it seems a bit disjointed on close inspection, it’s when you take a step back that this album really comes into focus
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A master ambient craftsman in his element. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Spin

    The album is a bell curve of sound, bookended by placid yet alien miniatures reminiscent of On Land
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  5. 8.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Probably the most listenable experimental performer in the world
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  6. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Many of the tracks are designed to drift into the background, but others demand your attention
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  7. 8.0 |   Eye Weekly

    Even Warp’s most esteemed artists could learn something from Eno here
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  8. 8.0 |   The Independent

    At their best, as with the haunted De Chirico space of "Calcium Needles", these pieces are powerfully evocative
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  9. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    Goodness knows who will accept this music homework but its charms are worth some detention
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  10. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    It's a rare pleasure to hear Eno being so "Blank Frank"-ly edgy and noisy again
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  11. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    An accomplished reverential album of journeys through imagined scenic escapism
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  12. 8.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Fuses ambient and electronica
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  13. 8.0 |   AU Review

    Engrossing stuff from the master
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  14. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    An uncharacteristically diverse album for the electronic-music pioneer
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  15. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    Small Craft on a Milk Sea's song titles present the listener with a notion of the past, present, and future existing as one holistic entity. With Brian Eno, you have a man who sounds uncompromisingly like all three
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  16. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    While most of the album is at least somewhat experimental in nature, Eno includes some reminders that he could probably compose a soundtrack for the afterlife if he felt the calling
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  17. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Small Craft is something different: a rhythmically aggressive Brian Eno album
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  18. 7.0 |   Blurt

    A reminder from the master about how it's supposed to be done
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  19. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Small Craft on a Milk Sea slots back into that forward thinking mindset, creating further realms of possibility for Eno to operate in
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  20. 7.0 |   NME

    After all these years, he's still got it
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  21. 7.0 |   BBC

    Small Craft... isn’t an album that’s going to change the world forever, but listened to in the right environment it sometimes does just that for a few minutes at a time
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  22. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Never stops fizzing with original energy
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  23. 7.0 |   Prefix

    Small Craft probably wouldn't make it as an art installation. It gets too diverse and obstreperous to make good musical wallpaper. But in the context of Eno the artiste, it stands up just fine
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  24. 7.0 |   The Observer

    Beginning and ending in familiar, ambient territory, while covering strange and pleasingly abrasive new ground
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  25. 7.0 |   Clash

    Things move from melodic ambience to galloping sci-fi workouts and back again
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  26. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Small Craft on a Milk Sea is easy to root for in real time, but it’s also pretty difficult to remember, let alone long for, once its ambient pulses and drones have faded
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  27. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The album may lack consistency, but it isn't short on order, each track bearing some indelible marker of Eno's touch
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  28. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    There is too much at Eno, Abrahams and Hopkins' fingertips for them to achieve that lovely, ominous and slightly clunky fragility you hear in Eno's best ambient works
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  29. 6.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    At worst incredibly listenable, and at best utterly invigorating
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  30. 6.0 |   Q

    There are echoes of Eno's previous ambient excursions. Print edition only

  31. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    It's eyebrow-raising but thrilling to find 2 Forms Of Anger revisiting the urgent punk he explored with 1974's Third Uncle, complete with ambient- unfriendly electric guitars
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  32. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    This has the sound of three men who are masters of slight ingredients, getting together for a bit of a back-slap session
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  33. 4.0 |   The Skinny

    For the most part, Small Craft drifts aimlessly in featureless ambience
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