We've got a copy of Fripp & Eno's The Equatorial Stars to giveaway this
week. If you’d like to be in with a chance of getting the album simply
send an email to competitions@dgmlive.com
with Fripp & Eno in the header and your postal address in the main message.
I’ll announce the winner on Monday 12th May. Released in 2005, the
BBC’s online reviews site described as “one of the finest things Robert or Brian
have done in years.” Barry Prickett over at LAS Magazine observed that “an
unsettling hue sifts through (the album), suggesting all is not sweetness and
light - it is light, perhaps, but only in that the night stars are often burned
out by the time we see them.” Pitchfork said (amongst other things) that the
album “is direct, engaging and modestly unsettling.
That vanguard of new music,
The Wire, pointed out that “Soundtracking stellar deeps has become one of
electronica's most overworked cliches, but in the easy intimacy audible in this
encounter, these Ambienaut vets make it sound like a piece of cake,” whilst the now
moribund Stylus magazine felt compelled to declare that after only three tracks “a certain
lifelessness starts to creep into The Equatorial Stars.” However, All About
Jazz argued that it was “unquestionably the finest recording they have made to
date.” You can read my take on the album over on the blog.
