Drums Between the Bells

Electronic · 2011 · 17 tracks · 52m

Drums Between the Bells

A collaborative experiment where Rick Holland's abstract poetry meets Eno's clinical, rhythmic soundscapes. Spoken word transformed into a textural instrument.

June 22, 2011 · Warp Records

An intellectual and detached exploration of language suspended in a cold, digital void.

Tracklist · 17 Tracks · 52m

01

Bless This Space

3:47

02

Glitch

2:57

03

Dreambirds

2:25

04

Pour It Out

3:37

05

Seedpods

2:49

06

The Real

6:55

07

The Airman

3:13

08

Fierce Aisles of Light

2:38

09

As If Your Eyes Were Partly Closed as If You Honed the Swirl Within Them and Offered Me the World

1:38

10

A Title

3:51

11

Sounds Alien

2:53

12

Dow

2:41

13

Multimedia

1:57

14

In the Future

2:11

15

Cloud 4

1:43

16

Silence

0:58

17

Breath of Crows

6:46

Moments Worth Listening For

The jarring, rhythmic glitching on track 3 that mimics a digital heartbeat under Rick Holland's verse.

The way the voice on 'Bless This Space' feels suspended in a vast, echoing chamber of synthetic light.

The sprawling, nearly seven-minute drift of 'The Real' where the music almost swallows the narration entirely.

Reviews

AllMusic

BBC Music

Where This Album Departs

How does Drums Between the Bells sound next to the rest of Brian Eno's catalogue?

Spoken Word+3.2σ

The vocals lean far further into spoken word than the rest of the catalogue.

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