Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Guardian“His 25th solo offering is closer to his "ambient music"...” His first for Warp – improvised with electronic musicians Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams – nods to his new home by adding rhythms in a more sinister, aggressive way than 1992's Nerve Net: rumbling undercurrents and echoing bells...

The Independent“A calm, largely featureless terrain...” "Horse" develops a pell-mell momentum, and "Paleosonic" features a choppy hubbub streaked with dervish guitar runs. But at their best, as with the haunted De Chirico space of "Calcium Needles", these pieces are powerfully evocative...

The Line of Best Fit“Almost plays it too safe...” Throughout the album there’s a great unpredictability in the choice of sounds and how they’re used and it never becomes self-conscious or jarring. This is also due to track length. These are largely musical miniatures...

MusicOMH“Unfortunately this album doesn't engage enough...” Unfortunately this has the sound of three men who are masters of slight ingredients, getting together for a bit of a back-slap session...

allmusic“Regains the timeless, ageless feel of his best ambient work...” Eno may be trading on his earlier developments in ambience to a small degree, but Small Craft on a Milk Sea is a good and proper balance of curiosity and expression...

Pitchfork“Oscillates between these familiar poles of serenity and disarray...” Small Craft on a Milk Sea sits surprisingly comfortably alongside the records from Eno's ambient and experimental golden era. Others might argue that fit is a little too comfortable...

Drowned In Sound“A return to the frosty ambient surface noise...” The final third of this album is where Eno sounds at his most comfortable, where tracks like ‘Lesser Heaven and ‘Calcium Needles’ pass by in a soupy miasma, with little bursts of fractal discord or piano balladry rising and falling in the mix..

Dusted Magazine“Stay away...” The obvious failures here reveal not only the album’s overall mediocrity but the extent to which listeners and critics are willing to suspend disbelief when faced with something that merely meets the minimum requirements of music...

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”

NME“Not yet reviewed”