Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe present a new collaborative project with the announcement of two albums: Luminal and Lateral, set for release on 6 June 2025. Alongside the announcement, the pair share two new singles - ‘Suddenly’ from Luminal and ‘Big Empty Country (Edit)’ from Lateral, both available now.
Eno and Wolfe first met through their environmental work when they gave a SXSW featured talk on ‘Art and Climate’. The talk was recently selected as one of the festival’s best in 25 years. The pair then met again when they were each showing their visual and conceptual art pieces at separate galleries in London. Their musical collaboration grew out of those meetings.
Centred on the concept of “art, and feelings”, Luminal can be described as “Electric-Country-Dream-Music”, featuring vocals and lyrics by Wolfe, and Eno on production, meanwhile the more ambient oriented Lateral offers a continuous mix and can be described as “Ambient-Landscape-Space-Music” that builds on Eno’s pioneering work in the genre.
Reflecting on the process, Eno and Wolfe explain "Both of us are fascinated with the feeling space, in all its ambiguity, and how Art can directly communicate where words fall short. Like all Art, Music is about making feelings happen. 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 that don’t exist in English. And by giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt. Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that have never previously existed. In this way, a piece of Art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling. “
Both Luminal and Lateral are both set for release on 6 June 2025 with the singles ‘Suddenly’ ‘Big Empty Country (Edit)’ available to stream & download now. Both albums are available for pre-order now including CD and exclusive colour biovinyl manufactured using eco-friendly materials, furthering both artists' enduring commitment to the environment.
