This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
The first ambient music I ever heard (and felt I understood) was by the one and only Brian Eno. Listening to Silur, I would not be surprised to hear that electronica duo Tarwater — the latest in a long list of recent post-rock minimalists from Germany — had a similar experience.
Although their atmospheric pop has too much human input to be truly ambient, the lulling ebb and flow of their rhythms, the hypnotic melodies and the submarine-bleeps of Silur (named after the period when the Earth was submerged) all sound like they share DNA with Eno’s work. It’s when the vocals come in — with aquatic-minded lyrics from Marc Bolan, Aldous Huxley and even Philippe Cousteau — that you know you’re seeing the next step in evolution: Pop from Atlantis.
