Brian Eno covers The Velvet Underground on new LP 'The Ship,' talking at NYC fest The Grid

February 24, 2016

Brian Eno will release his new album The Ship on April 29 via Warp. This is his first solo record since 2012’s LUX and, while there hasn’t been any music released yet, Warp describes it like this:

Originally conceived from experiments with three dimensional recording techniques and formed in two, interconnected parts, The Ship is almost as much musical novel as traditional album. Eno brings together beautiful songs, minimalist ambience, physical electronics omniscient narratives and technical innovation into a single, cinematic suite.

The 47-minute album with two tracks, the second being a three-part suite that concludes with a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free.” Eno himself says:

On a musical level, I wanted to make a record of songs that didn’t rely on the normal underpinnings of rhythmic structure and chord progressions but which allowed voices to exist in their own space and time, like events in a landscape. I wanted to place sonic events in a free, open space.

Pre-orders are available and you can check out The Ship‘s cover art and tracklist below.

As mentioned Eno will speak in NYC as part of new festival The Grid in May, details still TBA.

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