Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe announce two new albums: listen to “Suddenly” and “Big Empty Country”

Brian Eno and artist/composer Beatie Wolfe have collaborated on two new albums, Luminal and Lateral, which will both be out June 6 via Verve. Luminal is song-based, credited to Wolfe first and described as “dream music,” while Lateral is ambient, credited to Eno first and described as “space music.”

“Music is about making feelings happen,” Eno and Wolfe say. “Some of those feelings are familiar, while others may not be – or may be complex mixtures of several different feelings. There are many beautiful words for such feelings in other languages and cultures – words that don’t exist in English. By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible. Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that we’ve never quite felt before. In this way, a piece of Art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling, and a place you can go to find and re-experience that feeling.”

You can watch the video for Luminal‘s “Suddenly,” which is a lovely country-ish waltz, and listen to an edit of Lateral‘s album-length composition “Big Empty Country,” below.

Luminal
1. Milky Sleep
2. Hopelessly At Ease
3. My Lovely Days
4. Play On
5. Shhh
6. Suddenly
7. A Ceiling and a Lifeboat
8. And Live Again
9. Breath March
10. Never Was It Now
11. What We Are

Lateral
CD Tracklist
1. Big Empty Country

Vinyl Tracklist
1. Big Empty Country (Day)
2. Big Empty Country (Night)

Digital Tracklist
1. Big Empty Country Pt. I
2. Big Empty Country Pt. II
3. Big Empty Country Pt. III
4. Big Empty Country Pt. IV
5. Big Empty Country Pt. V
6. Big Empty Country Pt. VI
7. Big Empty Country Pt. VII
8. Big Empty Country Pt. VIII