Warp Records have announced the impending release a new album by Brian Eno.

Drums Between The Bells, a collaboration with Rick Holland, will be issued on CD, 12″ double vinyl, hardback 2CD and download on July 4. It’s Eno’s second full-length for Warp, following last year’s Small Craft On A Milk Sea. A press release explains how the project came to pass:

“Brian Eno first came across the work of Rick Holland in the late 90’s during the Map-Making project; a series of collaborative works between students of the Royal College, the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, the National Youth Orchestra and the English National Ballet, among others.

“In 2003, Brian and Rick made their first music together (the resulting work does not appear on this album). In the intervening time since that initial session they have met infrequently to work on new compositions.

“In early 2011, following the release of Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Brian’s debut album for Warp Records), the pair resolved to finish the project. ‘Drums Between the Bells’ is the result.
The hardback 2CD edition (pictured below) includes a 44-page book; its second disc features instrumental versions of tracks from the album. The double-vinyl edition includes a code to download mp3s of the album tracks; the first 500 orders will also receive mp3s of the instrumentals.”

The album – which features an original imagery by Eno and design by Nick Robertson – can be pre-ordered here, and you can listen to one of its tracks, ‘Glitch’, right now:


Brian Eno – glitch (taken from Drums Between The Bells)

Tracklist:
1. bless this space
2. glitch
3. dreambirds
4. pour it out
5. seedpods
6. the real
7. the airman
8. fierce aisles of light
9. as if your eyes were partly closed as if you honed the swirl within them and offered me … the world
10. a title
11. sounds alien
12. dow
13. multimedia
14. cloud 4
15. Silence
16. breath of crows