Earlier in 2025, Eno and Wolfe released two companion albums, ‘Luminal’ and ‘Lateral’, reimagining ambient and experimental music through the lenses of dream and space respectively. Where Luminal was framed as “dream music” and Lateral as “space music,” Liminal is now cast as “dark matter music,” positioned somewhere in-between.

In their own words and speaking to MusicRadar, Eno and Wolfe describe Liminal as inhabiting the borderlands “between song and non-song (or ‘nong’ as we call it), where the listener is exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world, as yet unclaimed, and still ambiguous.”

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In a bold gesture that blends art and science, the album will be transmitted from Earth into space using the Holmdel Horn antenna in New Jersey – the same instrument used in confirming the cosmic microwave background radiation, a cornerstone in the evidence for the Big Bang theory.Nobel Prize–winning physicist Dr. Robert Wilson is participating in the broadcast. 

Wolfe and Eno explain that, for music exploring “future worlds” and “mysterious spaces,” sending it beyond Earth felt thematically appropriate. Liminal is an 11-song project, released via Verve Records. Among the tracks are ‘The Last to Know’ (vocal) and ‘Ringing Ocean’ (instrumental), both released ahead of the full album. The tracklist also includes ‘Procession’, ‘Little Boy’, ‘Flower Women’, ‘Shallow Form’, ‘Before Life’, ‘Laundry Room’, ‘Corona’, and the closing ‘Shudder Like Crows’.

Spill Magazine describes Liminal as merging layered soundscapes with haunting lyrical moments: “the ambient/instrumental songs alternate with tracks that feature vocals … The juxtaposition … works.” The overall mood leans darker and more introspective than its siblings.

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This release is also a continuation of Wolfe’s ongoing work at the intersection of art, technology, environment, and music. Meanwhile, Eno, ever the restless innovator, continues to stretch his legacy in new directions.

For listeners intrigued by boundary-pushing sound, ‘Liminal’ offers a haunting and expansive journey, from two loved artists – in a way you might not have heard them before.

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The journey began with ‘Luminal’, a record Eno and Wolfe described as “dream music.” Here, Wolfe’s emotive vocals and Eno’s ambient soundscapes fused to create something both intimate and almost otherworldly. The album drew inspiration from untranslatable words and concepts in global languages; terms like “mono no aware”, the Japanese expression for the poignancy of empathy, and “ya’aburnee”, an Arabic word for the wish not to live without a loved one.

Released alongside ‘Luminal’, ‘Lateral’ offered a striking contrast. Described as “space music,” it was anchored by a single hour-long piece titled ‘Big Empty Country’. The work unfolded slowly, built around sparse motifs that shifted with clarity. Where ‘Luminal’ offered lyrical intimacy, ‘Lateral’ invited listeners into an expansive meditation, a vast sonic landscape. Together, the two albums showcased Eno and Wolfe’s ability to explore extremes; one grounded in the warmth of human voice and the other pushing the envelope toward the edges of abstraction.

‘Liminal’ is the final offering in the trilogy, which the duo has characterized as “dark matter music.” In their words, it blurs the lines between song and non-song, a space they playfully call “nong.” If ‘Luminal’ was dreamlike and ‘Lateral’ otherworldly, ‘Liminal’ seeks to merge these worlds, drawing from both the vastness of the latter and the emotion of the former. The record is comprised of eleven tracks, including the already released singles ‘The Last to Know’ and ‘Ringing Ocean’.

Beyond the music itself, the project also shows the pair’s care for the planet. Like the earlier albums, ‘Liminal’ will be available in eco-friendly formats, including CDs, digital releases, black bio-vinyl, and a special translucent rose-colored vinyl. This fits with Eno and Wolfe’s shared interest in climate issues, which first brought them together during a 2022 discussion at SXSW about art and the environment. The album is available for pre-order here.

‘Together For Palestine’ will take place at Wembley Arena on September 17 with Albarn and Bastille being joined by Greentea Peng, Hot Chip, James Blake, Jamie xx, King Krule, Paloma Faith and many more.

They will also be joined by Palestinian artists Adnan Joubran, Faraj Suleiman and Nai Barghouti, with more names due to be announced at a later date.

Legendary producer Brian Eno has organised the benefit gig, with “every penny donated” going to Palestinian partners through UK charity Choose Love.

Speaking during the announcement of the event in July, Eno said: “I’ve had the good fortune to work with some of the world’s most remarkable artists for over 50 years. But one of my biggest regrets is that during that time so many of us have remained silent about Palestine.

“Often that silence has come from fear, real fear – that speaking out could provoke a backlash, close doors or end a career. But that’s now changing – partly because some artists and activists have lit the path, but mostly because the truth of what’s going on has become impossible to ignore.”

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Former Blur frontman Damon Albarn recently spoke with Channel 4 News ahead of the show in support of the Palestinian people. This comes after Albarn was called out by Bob Vylan as an “out of touch 90s musician” after the ‘Parklife’ singer criticised the punk duo’s controversial Glastonbury set.

Albarn said in the interview: “I, like everyone with a heart, have felt despair and helplessness at the reports coming out of Gaza and the West Bank over these last days, months, years.

“A genocide unfolding in real time on our screens. I come from a family of pacifists. I have been taught, and I believe, that pacifism is an action. Peace is an action. To live peacefully requires vision and commitment. To act with humanity towards one another, that too is a decision. Music has taken me around the world, it is the sum of everything I know and trust and believe in – respect, collaboration, shared experience.”

 

 

 

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As mentioned earlier, Eno has confirmed that “every penny donated” will go to Palestinian partners through Choose Love, which is a UK charity focused on supporting local humanitarians in conflict zones. However, the gig is about far more than just financial support, according to Eno, as it is all about “sending a message of love and solidarity to the people of Palestine – that they haven’t been forgotten.”

Tickets for the gig at Wembley Arena on September 17 are available now from here for £59.75. As mentioned earlier, 100% of sales will be used to support Palestinian humanitarian organisations.

The prestigious producer’s 30^th solo album, ‘Aurum’ has been released exclusively to Apple Music, due to their Spatial Audio feature, which delivers an immersive, surround-sound experience for the listener where it feels like the music is coming from all around you. It will not be available through Spotify and other streaming platforms. No singles were released prior to the album.

As well as the record, Apple Music have dropped a new interview between Eno and Zane Lowe. In the 43-minute video, the two conversed about ‘Aurum’, and AI technology.

Eno shared his mixed feelings on the topic of AI: “The biggest problem for me about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people, and I have less and less interest in what those people think, and more and more criticisms of what the effect of their work has been.”

Eno isn’t the first musician in recent years to have gripes with AI technology. Artists like Kate Bush, Paul McCartney and Thom Yorke have all expressed concerns over how it could affect the music industry.

But the godfather of ambient music also spoke about the creative possibilities that could come with the new technology: “Talking about AI itself, I’ve always been happy to welcome new technologies and to see what you could do with them that nobody else thought of doing with them, and what things they could do, other than those that they were designed for, because with all music technology, it’s always very interesting that stuff is designed for one reason, and then people start to find new things they could do that are completely beyond what the designer was thinking about.”

“Distortion is a good example. Distortion is, in a way, the sound of popular music, a lot of the things that we find uniquely exciting to do with equipment kind of going wrong. That’s quite a bizarre thought, isn’t it? That you design equipment to do this. Then, you start using it to do something else, which it doesn’t do very well, and you get to like the sound of the not very wellness.”

Brian Eno is widely credited with popularizing the term and genre of “ambient music”. Previously a member of British band Roxy Music, in the late 70’s he released “Ambient 1: Music for Airports”, a seminal work which set the tone for the genre. He defined it as music that could be “as ignorable as it is interesting”.

He’s had a prolific career, releasing over 40 albums of his own as well as collaborations with artists like Robert Fripp, Harold Budd and more recently Fred Again – their collaborative album ‘Secret Life’ gained positive reviews, with Triple J writing: “It seemed like a big call for Four Tet to say Secret Life is the most beautiful album of the year, but it really will be hard to beat.”

‘Aurum’ is available to listen via Apple Music here.

Ships will be premiering on the 21st October as the centrepiece of the 2023 Venice Biennale Musica. Eno will then play shows in prestigious venues in Berlin, Paris, and Utrecht before closing the tour with two performances at 6:30 pm and 9 pm for the Royal Festival Hall in London on 30^th October.

Tickets will go on general sale from Thursday 8^th June. Members of the Southbank Centre can access the ticket presale from 10 AM BST on Wednesday 7^th June. For more information see here.

Eno will be performing with Baltic Sea Philharmonic, orchestrated and conducted by Kristjan Järvi as commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia. At the Biennale Musica, Eno will be honoured with the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award “for his research into the quality, beauty and diffusion of digital sound and for his conception of the acoustic space as a compositional instrument” according to the event’s page.

#BiennaleMusica2023 @brianeno, this year’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, has just announced his first ever solo live concert tour, starting on October 21 at the @teatrolafenice, as part of the 67th International Festival of Contemporary Music. SHIPS is commissioned by… https://t.co/LPdDpiiY8f

— La Biennale di Venezia (@la_Biennale) June 6, 2023

Eno toured with Roxy Music in the 70s but has since rarely played live only playing one-off shows or at festivals. Brian and his brother Roger played together at Acropolis, Athens back in 2021 as part of the annual Epidaurus Festival. The concert was filmed and screened in cinemas across the UK for one night only on the 2^nd March earlier this year.

Originally Eno didn’t plan on making The Ship a record. “The way the whole piece started out was not as a record but as an installation,” Eno told Entertainment Weekly back in 2016. When a friend of Eno’s asked him for a recording of the installation in Stockholm he started thinking of making The Ship an album. “It took me by surprise a little bit,” he continued. “I wasn’t planning it as my next record project when I started it.”

On the third track “Fickle Sun (ii) The Hour Is Thin”, Eno used a Markov chain generator to create the lyrics spoken by Peter Serafinowicz by mixing “dirty songs by First World War soldiers” with “accounts written from the lifeboats by people watching the Titanic sinking” and “part of a book about the blitz over London”. The result is an eerie and twisted lullaby. Listen to the track below:

Last month Eno collaborated with British DJ Fred Again.. on the surprise LP Secret Life. The album was released on electronic artist Four Tet’s label Text Records and was dubbed by the artist “the most beautiful album of 2023”.

The album Secret Life by Fred again and Brian Eno is coming out on my label Text Records on Friday

— Four Tet (@FourTet) May 2, 2023

Listen to the track “Trying” from the album below:

See below for Brian Eno’s Ships tour dates:
21/10/23 – Venice Biennale Musica – Venice
24/10 – Philharmonie Berlin – Berlin
26/10 – La Seine Musicale – Paris
28/10 – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht
30/10 – Royal Festival Hall – London

it is the most beautiful album of 2023

— Four Tet (@FourTet) May 2, 2023

The duo kept the LP under wraps until yesterday (3^rd May) when electronic musician Four Tet comically revealed on Instagram with a faraway image of a post-it note that the album, Secret Life, would be released on his label Text Records. According to Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) “it is the most beautiful album of 2023”. The album will be available on physical release as CDs and vinyl as Fred showcased on his Instagram.

The musicians revealed on social media that “for the last couple of weeks” a radio station called secretlife.fm has been playing “different versions” of the album at 10 pm BST each evening. The 11-track final and main version of the ambient album debuted on NTS Radio last night (3^rd May).

Fred Again.. took to Instagram to express his excitement over the project and his love for Eno writing: “I absolutely love Brian. So much. Ive been so lucky to have him as my friend and mentor since I was 16. And the older I get the more I appreciate how rare and wonderful his mind is.” He continued to say: “Making this was I think the most therapeutic experience ive had in music. ill explain a bit more why when I understand it a bit better I think?”.

In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Eno reciprocated Fred’s praises saying, “I think of Fred as my mentor as well in that I Iearned so much about contemporary music from watching him work. When I first worked with Fred I could see he was brilliant. It was very clear he’s a very sensitive and good artist. But I didn’t really understand what he was doing. It took me quite a while to think, ‘Oh my gosh, this is really a new idea about how you can make music.’”

Watch the full interview below:

Both artists dropped records in October last year, Fred Again.. releasing the future garage album Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) and Brian Eno releasing the ambient pop album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE.

Fred Again.., Four Tet, and Skrillex teamed up to close out Coachella weekend two last month replacing Frank Ocean as headliners. Ocean cancelled his performance after sustaining injuries in his left leg.

The 73-year-old artist who is also known for his 1975 masterpiece named Another Green World, is the founding trustee of the campaigning organisation EarthPercent, whose goal is to inspire artists and companies within the music industry to play their part in saving the planet, and donate small sums of earnings, to organisations who are addressing and aiding the climate crisis emergency. Last summer Eno produced his first ever large-scale exhibition in Japan, titled ‘Brian Eno Ambient Kyoto’.  All his earnings from this exhibition are to go towards support of EarthPercent’s aim to raise $100 million by 2030.

Brian has appeared as a guest on the 1st episode of Series 2 of the ‘Sounds Like a Plan Podcast’ to talk about EarthPercent & how he sees a ‘Climate Opportunity’.https://t.co/mw9wpZVmTN@GregCochrane @Faymilton

— Brian Eno (@brianeno) October 14, 2021

During the summit, Eno spoke about the idea EarthPercent came up with to raise further money for this 2030 goal, which is to install ​“a sort of tax… a small percentage of the money that passes through all of the organisations in the music business – that’s to say, bands, artists, tours, agents, lawyers, record companies, streaming companies – and say to each of them: ​‘What about giving us one per cent of your take? And we’ll redirect that to the best organisations that are really making a difference.’” Adding, “A lot of money goes through the music business – culture is a huge business. What if we could say to people in the music business: ​‘I’m sure you want to give something to charities that deal with the environment, because most people do. And I’m sure you’re confused, because most people are. So what are the ones that will make a difference for a long time?’”

There was a huge selection of other individuals and artists from the music world who spoke at this year’s summit, as shown on the IMS website:

IMS Ibiza Summit 2022 speakers A-Z

AMÉMÉ (Artist, Benin)

Andreea Magdalina (shesaid.so; Founder; Romania/USA)

Andres Bretel (Point Blank Music School Ibiza / Ibiza Blau Music School; Lecturer; Peru)

Anna Lakatos (Point Blank Music School; Producer, Audio Engineer & Educator; UK)

Artbat – represented by Chris Braun (Artist Manager; House United; Germany)

Ariana Remskar (Viberate, Content Manager, Slovenia)

Becky Hill (Artist; UK)

Ben Turner (IMS, Summit Director & Curator, UK)

Blanka Nova (Point Blank Music School Ibiza / Ibiza Blau Music School; Director of Studies; Czech Republic)

BLOND:ISH (Artist, Canada)

Brian Eno (Artist, UK)

Dan Tait (Pioneer DJ; Artist Relations; UK)

David Boyle (IMS / Audience Strategies; UK)

Dean Wilson (Seven20; CEO / Co Founder & Pixelnyx; Co Founder; USA)

DJ Ravine (Point Blank Music School; Marketing Manager & Twitch DJ; Australia)

Duran Duran (Artists, UK)

Erol Alkan (Artist, UK)

Greg Marshall (AFEM, General Manager, UK)

Gregor Pryor (Reed Smith, Partner, UK)

Guillaume Le Nost (L-Acoustics; Executive Director of Creative Technologies; France)

Hannah Shogbola (United Talent; Agent; UK)

Iain Watt (Serenade; Active Investor; UK)

Inder Phull (Pixelnyx; Co-Founder & CEO; UK)

Jaguar (BBC Radio 1; Host of Introducing Dance; UK)

Jamie Burke (Outlier Ventures; Founder & CEO; UK)

Jamie Jones (Artist; UK)

Janice Taylor (EQ Exchange; Founder/CEO; Canada)

Joel Zimmerman AKA deadmau5 (Pixelnyx; Co Founder; Canada)

Jessica Wilson (Seven20; COO / Co Founder USA)

Kerri Chandler (Artist, USA)

Kurosh Nasseri (AFEM; Co-Founder/Lawyer; USA)

Laurent Garnier (Artist; France)

Laurie Charlsworth (Presenter, UK)

Lyor Cohen (YouTube & Google; Global Head of Music)

Maria May (CAA; Head of Electronic; UK)

Marina Ponti (United Nations; Director of the UN SDG Action Campaign; Italy)

Matt Abbott (LabelWorx; CEO / Co-Founder, UK)

Miha Vidmajer (Viberate; Product Manager; Slovenia)

Nastia (Artist; Nechto; Ukraine)

Nora En Pure (Artist; South Africa)

Ole Obermann (TikTok; Global Head of Music; UK)

Oli Isaacs (This Is Music; Artist manager for Bicep; UK)

Patrick Topping (Artist; UK)

Pete Tong (BBC Radio 1; Broadcaster; UK)

Portrait XO (Rania Kim; Artist; US)

Prospa (Artists; UK)

Ramin Rezaie (Solid Grooves; Label Manager; UK)

Richie Hawtin (Artist; Canada)

Robb McDaniels (Beatport; CEO; UK/USA)

Russ Tannen (Dice; President; UK)

Sam Schoonover (Coachella; Innovation Lead; USA)

Sarah Story (BBC Radio 1; DJ & Broadcaster; UK)

Sean Gardner (Moda Dao / Emanate; Founder: Australia)

Silvia Montello (AFEM; Association for Electronic Music; UK)

Simon Dunmore (Defected Records; Founder; UK)

Sophia Kearney (HE.SHE.THEY; Founder; UK)

Steven Braines (HE.SHE.THEY; Founder; UK)

Thilini Jayawickrama (AFEM; Events & Communications Manager, Australia)

Thomas Irwin (Point Blank Music School; DJ/Producer; UK)

Tristan Hunt (AFEM, Regional Manager, UK)

Tsha (Artist; UK)

Trevor McFedries; (Dapper Collectives/Friends With Benefits, CEO/Founder, USA)

Vasja Veber (Viberate; Co-Founder; Slovenia)

Wilf Gregory (Event Horizon; Group CEO; UK)

Zak Khutoretsky aka DVS1 (Aslice, Founder, Artist, USA)

And one of his helpers includes singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, who’s donated his very own single to the charity. The track is called “Elephant“. If you want to hear it, you can follow the link in the tweet down below. You can pay what you like but there’s a £1.99 price tag included. Environmentalists can be assured that at least £1.30 of their purchase will go to Eno’s charity. Unfortunately, they’ve added a bit of a deadline as well, with the track being available only until May 6^th, so best be quick if you’re interested in hearing it.

A new tune “Elephant” is available from bandcamp for the next 2 weeks only, all proceeds go to @earthpercentorg
pay what you like
VvvVvvVhttps://t.co/8JnADL4z2f pic.twitter.com/ZEGFzkAACP

— Declan mckenna (@DeclanMcKenna) April 22, 2022

According to NME, the track takes McKenna’s previous music in a more “industrial“ direction, but there are similarities to his 2020 album Zeroes with all the allusions to dystopian themes.

As for EarthPercent, Eno’s charity was created back in 2021 and states its goal as “to offer simple and innovative ways for businesses and artists to donate to the most impactful organisations addressing the climate emergency“.

McKenna’s not the only artist to help out. Other well-known names on Eno’s charity playlist include Jarvis Cocker and his group JARV IS…., Coldplay and Anna Calvi. Artists have been donating previously unreleased songs, live versions of songs and collaborations with other artists, so there are a lot of things that fans might find worthwhile.

McKenna’s got a few live dates coming up as well, including an appearance at this year’s Glastonbury festival (more of which you can read about here). He’ll also be headlining at the Royal Albert Hall on May 2^nd, with artists CMAT and Alfie Templeman involved in the backing band. You can look for tickets at this link, as well as see his UK and Ireland tour dates down below.

Declan McKenna UK and Ireland Tour Dates

01/05/2022 – Assembly Hall – Worthing
02/05 – Royal Albert Hall – London
04/05 – O2 Academy – Liverpool
05/05 – Albert Hall – Manchester
06/05 – Albert Hall – Manchester
07/05 – Empire – Coventry
09/05 – Rock City – Nottingham
10/05 – University Asylum – Hull
12/05 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin
13/05 – Cyprus Avenue – Cork
22-26/06 – Glastonbury – Worthy Farm
15/07 – Finsbury Park – London
22/07 – Tramlines – Sheffield
23/07 – Standon Calling – Hertfordshire
30/07 – Kendall Calling – Lowther Deer Park
13/08 – Boardmasters Festival – Cornwall
27/08 – Victorious Festival – Southsea, Portsmouth