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Uncut DECEMBER 2025 - by Wyndham Wallace

BRIAN ENO & BEATIE WOLFE: LIMINAL

Transitional collection makes it three this year from arty duo

Hopefully, no-one other than Eno and Wolfe will use the term "nong" (non-song) to describe this bridge between the summer's ambient Lateral and song-based Luminal. Nonetheless, these eleven tracks occupy that space successfully, whether Wolfe's voice is filling out Eno's eerie soundscapes as a textural but poetic component (Little Boy) or mere embellishment (the slow-motion Flower Women), or conjuring Julee Cruise (Part Of Us). She's especially solemn on the elegiac The Last To Know, and the seemingly inconsequential spoken words are oddly unsettling on Laundry Room, but the Durutti Column-esque chiming guitars on Procession ensure there's sparkling beauty too.