We assume the title of the album is a humorous tribute to Brian Eno but nonetheless this is an excellent album mixing both rhythmic and wonderfully dark tracks, many running into one another. We start off with one of the dark ones, 'Occultation'. This is an extremely cosmic piece.
Dark crashes echo away into the vastness of space. These are joined by rising and falling electronic whooshes and various other tinkling / bleepy and even watery effects. The whole feel is very sparse and uncluttered, each sound being heard in isolation. In the thirteenth minute shimmering pads come in and we are immediately transported from foreboding darkness into the light. It is as if we are coming to the end of some nerve wracking journey and nearing the familiarity of home. Atmospheric music really doesn't get any better than this. An excellent 70s style very analogue sounding sequence propels 'Kopernikus' forwards. A more contemporary rhythm then enters complimenting the sequence perfectly. We chug along at a steady pace with lovely little melodic touches skipping from beat to beat. It's all so cool! We are back to the atmospherics for 'Geological Justice'. A drone, sounding like some vast engine or generator, provides a backing over which various spooky sounds warble and throb. Again this is quality stuff.
'Terraforming' carries on in similar mood. Another sequence then starts up. This one has something of a menacing feel to it, the sinister mood being heightened by little percussive effects and half heard vocal samples. More pulsations are added but all then subsides to atmospherics in time for 'The Steer'. Things get eerier and eerier. All areas of the sound spectrum are used from bass so deep you can feel it rather than hear it and twittering runs that start low then become so high they are almost shrieking. A deep throb pulses out at the beginning of 'Dazzling Shadow'. Subtle rhythm comes in creating quite a moody atmosphere. 'Microcolony' is another syncopated number mixing interesting loops and beats. Things get even better after the half way mark as a sequence is deployed alongside the existing rhythm. The first minute of 'The Launch' features some narrative imagining what it must be like to be a bug on the top of a rocket during take off with appropriate sound effects in the background! We then get some cosmic bits as presumably the poor old insect finds itself in space.
'Talisman' mixes dark drones, percussion and solar winds to create yet another extremely moody soundscape. Gentle, deep flute gives proceedings a slightly Easter feel. This feeling is heightened in the fourth minute when some slow, almost funereal, rhythm is added. Plucked string melodies impart that little bit of detail here and there. This is a very different album to 'Sky Archeology' and 'Cyberiad' being much more atmospheric with a rather mean attitude but like those albums it just oozes class.
