Brian Eno Announces New Album 'FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE'

Photo: Cecily Eno

Brian Eno has announced a new album.

'FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE', the long-awaited follow-up to 2017's 'Reflection', will be released on October 14 and revolves around the theme of climate emergency. It will be the first record  Eno has sung the majority of the vocals on since 2005's 'Another Day On Earth'. Eno said:

"Like everybody else - except, apparently, most of the governments of the world - I’ve been thinking about our narrowing, precarious future, and this music grew out of those thoughts. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say I’ve been feeling about it...and the music grew out of the feelings. Those of us who share those feelings are aware that the world is changing at a super-rapid rate, and that large parts of it are disappearing forever...hence the album title.

"These aren’t propaganda songs to tell you what to believe and how to act. Instead they’re my own exploration of my own feelings. The hope is that they will invite you, the listener, to share those experiences and explorations.

"It took me a long time to embrace the idea that we artists are actually feelings-merchants. Feelings are subjective. Science avoids them because they’re hard to quantify and compare. But ‘feelings’ are the beginnings of thoughts, and the long term attendants of them too. Feelings are the whole body reacting, often before the conscious brain has got into gear, and often with a wide lens that encompasses more than the brain is consciously aware of.

"Art is where we start to become acquainted with those feelings, where we notice them and learn from them - learn what we like and don’t like - and from there they start to turn into actionable thoughts. Children learn through play; adults play through Art. Art gives you the space to ‘have’ feelings, but it comes with an off-switch: you can shut the book or leave the gallery. Art is a safe place to experience feelings - joyous ones and difficult ones. Sometimes those feelings are about things we long for, sometimes they’re about things we might want to avoid.

"I’m more and more convinced that our only hope of saving our planet is if we begin to have different feelings about it: perhaps if we became re-enchanted by the amazing improbability of life; perhaps if we suffered regret and even shame at what we’ve already lost; perhaps if we felt exhilarated by the challenges we face and what might yet become possible. Briefly, we need to fall in love again, but this time with Nature, with Civilisation and with our hopes for the future."

As a preview, Eno has shared There Were Bells, an entrancing song with an atmospheric tension that builds to a climax that never comes. It arrives with a live video filmed at the Acropolis, Athens.

Despite his last solo effort arriving five years ago, the British musician, composer and producer has still been busy with other new music since then, having released the collection 'Film Music 1976-2020' as well as 'Mixing Colours' with his brother Roger Eno in 2020 and 'Live In Paris 28.05.1975' in 2021.

'FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE' LP and digital tracklist:

1. Who Gives a Thought
2. We Let It In
3. Icarus or Blériot
4. Garden of Stars
5. Inclusion
6. There Were Bells
7. Sherry
8. I’m Hardly Me
9. These Small Noises
10. Making Gardens Out of Silence

'FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE' CD tracklist:

1. Who Gives a Thought
2. We Let It In
3. Icarus or Blériot
4. Garden of Stars
5. Inclusion
6. There Were Bells
7. Sherry
8. I’m Hardly Me
9. These Small Noises
10. Making gardens out of silence in the uncanny valley

All voices and instruments by Brian Eno except:
Leo Abrahams - guitar on Who Gives a Thought, Icarus or Blériot, Garden of Stars, There Were Bells, Sherry and These Small Voices.
Darla Eno – additional voice on We Let It In and I’m Hardly Me.
Cecily Eno – additional voice on Garden of Stars.
Roger Eno - accordion on Garden of Stars and There Were Bells.
Peter Chilvers  - keyboards on Garden of Stars. 
Marina Moore – Violin and Viola on Inclusion.
Clodagh Simonds – additional voice on These Small Noises.
Jon Hopkins – keyboard on These Small Noises.
Kyoko Inatome – voice on Making Gardens Out of Silence.

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