Brian Eno Couldn't Have Made a Better Farewell Album Than The Ship

by Dave Segal
The Ship has an air of valedictory finality about it. After a 43-year solo career of innovating and inspiring countless musicians with his ingeniously eccentric rock songs, multicultural sampledelia (see My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recorded with David Byrne), and ambient recordings, Brian Eno, one senses, has done all the Eno-ing an Eno can do.
However.
He may be living comfortably thanks to lucrative production work with totemic bland-rock bands U2 and Coldplay, but this sonic