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adrastea_
After years listening to ambient music I still haven't found any album as introspective and atmospheric as this one and that's why I still consider this to be the greatest ambient record of all time. It's just so immersive and unique! Eno has made some amazing stuff, but imo this is his masterpiece. It never gets old and never loses its charm, wich are the true signs of a great work of art.
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WildRhubarb
I've been coming back to this every three weeks or so for just years now, your last comment definitely resonates something proper
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HuppumiesIsPest
Every time I think Eno can't have made anything better, I find an album of his that proves me wrong. What a gorgeous album, my god. I see I'm not the only one blown away.
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MisterJunior
Very possibly Eno's greatest achievement. His records are almost uniformly very good/excellent, but a few are transcendent. This is one of those.
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friendlyburrito
i could lose myself in this album forever... music for airports and apollo are fantastic but this is hauntingly gorgeous
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Deato
Most everything he touches turns to gold, but this album is the eternal platinum MASTERPIECE. It has not lost one iota of its attraction since it was originally released. It blew my mind when I first heard it and continues to do so 30 years later. That's what makes this enduring album an object worthy of highest admiration and veneration.
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garfieldMulder
I want to visit Leek Hills now. There isn't a word that can describe that song fully.
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Decorticate
Most visually imaginative album of his. esp. the eerie, rolling shapes in Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
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Strange_Cargo
What ctd55 said. AND, it's my favourite amongst Eno's works. It's the best dark ambient album that has ever been -or, for that matter, will ever be- created. ॐ
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ctd55
From shifting synth drones, deep bass sounds, and sound effects, Eno creates something intriguing--non-vocal music that is nevertheless representational. As the drone slowly shifts and we await the next bizarre sound effect to pop up from the mix, the music creeps into our minds and conjures soundscapes of placid yet eerie environments. Think of it as a movie without images, but with sounds so precise and evocative they conjure a visual environment without our seeing anything. For me, the movie it creates is a series of slow tracking shots, embarking from the wilderness, surveying a decaying urban landscape, and finally fleeing from the uncanny and sinister sounds of an abandoned environment. Through the slow degradation of all we've made, nature is slowly erasing traces of human life and reclaiming what were formerly parts of our world. We feel the lack of human sounds in these environments where the natural is the enemy of the human, and that feeling is terrifying.
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Half-Remembered
Hearing this album as a 14yr old schoolkid in the mid-80s retuned my ears for ever, and set me on my way.
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