THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Foreverandevernomore is the 22nd solo studio album from Brian Eno and the first since January 2017’s Reflection. The 10-track album was recorded and produced by Eno his studio in West London and features his singing on the majority of tracks.
It’s a sonically beguiling, ultimately optimistic exploration of the narrowing, precarious future of humanity and our planet. As Eno himself says. “I’m more and more convinced that our only hope of saving our planet is if we begin to have different feelings about it; specifically, if we become re-enchanted by the amazing improbability of life, suffer regret and even shame at what we’ve already lost, and feel 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.”
A vocal album as mentioned, Foreverandevernomore is made up of 10 distinct songs and Eno has experimented on the record using tonal over major chord changes, “My voice has changed, it’s lowered, it’s become a different personality I can sing from. I don’t want to sing like a teenager, it can be melancholy, a bit regretful. As for writing songs again — it’s more landscapes, but this time with humans in them. I like creating worlds, that’s what I do as an artist, creating sonic worlds. Now after quite a long absence of humans in those worlds I have tried putting one in and seeing how they feel in the world I’ve made.”
