Brian Eno - LUX
Critic Score
Based on 29 reviews
2012 Ratings: #460 / 1118
User Score
Based on 64 ratings
2012 Rank: #334
Liked by 2 people
November 13, 2012 / Release Date
LP / Format
Warp / Label
Ambient / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

83
A.V. Club

As with Eno’s greatest ambient work, Lux seems to complement something just beyond reach, absent but not unknowable

80
Drowned in Sound

On one end, it sounds like a straightforward film score. In another instance, it’s perfect headphone music for self-study or personal contemplation.

80
Pitchfork

If Lux does nothing else, it suggests that there's a reason Eno's name has become synonymous with "ambient" and why his thoughts on the music remain the gold standard.

80
The 405

If ambient music is designed to "modify one's perception of a surrounding environment," LUX is an unqualified success

80
NME

The detail of individual tracks is almost irrelevant, as the album drifts from sunrise strings to rise-and-fall synths to piano notes as delicate as foals taking their first steps.

80
PopMatters

Like any good artist pushing the boundaries of his medium, Eno does away with the easily digestible progression through brief poems of sounds and opts instead for four movements, barely distinguishable to the impatient ear, but demanding to be taken seriously.

80
musicOMH

Eno’s Lux takes you on a journey that allows your imagination to run wild – a record that will create differing landscapes for everyone who listens to it.

79
Beats Per Minute

We didn’t need further proof that Eno is a masterful ambient music maker, but here we are anyway.

75
Under the Radar

Whether it plays like the soundtrack to peace, loss, or twinkling lights, LUX is a composition that is no more static than its listener.

royalflush
78

Sounds great if you play all 4 tracks simultaneously

swataverse
NR

Approaching Mountains did it better

daFigz
80

I held up the album cover and fell instantly in love with the cover art. My first listen was pleasurable. But, something is missing? Hmm. Oh, variance of style. Eno seems to rarely leave the realm of his em coloring which, by now, are his trademark sound. Being a fan, I say, so what. Brilliant ambient em by the master of em ambient style. Word. Peave. - @daFigz™

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Track List

1[untitled]
19:22
75
2[untitled]
18:14
75
3[untitled]
19:19
75
4[untitled]
18:28
50
Total Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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Added on: September 26, 2012