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For all of his prolificacy, his repertoire, his universal influence and all the hushed tones surrounding his name, Brian Eno has never really made music for singing. He’s certainly played around with the idea; his landmark work through the ‘70s featured intermittent vocal support, and his partnership with David Byrne has produced some honest-to-god pop songs—but most of these moments seemed entwined to the very essence of the music, the songwriting becoming a primary instrument. This isn’t the case with Drums Between the Bells; while texturally it runs the gambit of Eno’s various guises over the years, the voices present are coming through clearer, and more deliberately than ever before. This emphasis comes quite characteristically from the mind of Rick Holland, a poet, who understandably comes from a place of invisible rhythm and implied music. Eno has always been a background worker, but here he’s crafting the origins and scenario of another’s cadence, positioning his music like shadows to the words. It’s the sort of thing that could collapse in the hands of another talent, but the long-proven expertise of Eno transforms what probably should be an afterthought of an album into something rather terrific. – Paste
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