Brian Eno Announces New Album ‘The Ship’

Influential musician Brian Eno has announced the upcoming release of a new album The Ship. The new LP will be issued by Warp Records on April 29.

The follow-up to Eno’s last solo album, 2012’s LUX, The Ship features a 21-minute opening title track. The record also includes Eno’s cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free,” as the third movement of the three-part “Fickle Sun” suite. Coinciding with the album’s release, Eno-designed multi-channel three-dimensional sound installations will be presented around the world, offering an “alternative telling of The Ship.”

“Written in the late sixties, Lou Reed’s song ‘I’m Set Free’ seems even more relevant now than it did then,” Eno said in a statement. “Perhaps anybody who’s read Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens will recognise the quiet irony of ‘I’m set free to find a new illusion’ … and its implication that when we step out of our story we don’t step into ‘the truth’ – whatever that might be – but into another story.”

The Ship is available to pre-order from Warp Records.

The Ship Tracklist

1. The Ship
2. Fickle Sun (i) Fickle Sun (ii) The Hour Is Thin (iii) I’m Set Free