''The Ship'' is the twenty-seventh solo studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released on 29 April 2016 on

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. It was announced on Eno's website on 24 February 2016. The album is Eno's first solo album to contain vocals since 2005's '' Another Day on Earth''.Brian Eno Announces Titanic-Inspired Solo LP 'The Ship'
/ref> ''The Ship'' debuted at number 28 on the

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and is the second highest-charting solo album of Eno's solo career (after debut ''

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/ref> The album received critical acclaim.

Background

Brian Eno has said the title is a reference to the sinking of ''Titanic'', which he has called "the apex of human technical power, set to be man's greatest triumph over nature". The album was originally conceived as a multi-channel

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, when Eno discovered that he could sing in a low C: "As you get older, you know, your voice drops, so you sort of gain a semi-tone at the bottom and lose about six at the top every year. That's what's happened to me. So I've suddenly got this new, low voice I can sing with, and I just started singing with that piece. And, so it was the first time I thought, "Oh, what about making a song that you could walk around inside?".Brian Eno on Kanye West, David Bowie and His Immersive LP 'The Ship'
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Accolades

Track listing

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Personnel

Credits are adapted from ''The Ship'' liner notes. *Brian Eno – producer, recording *

Peter Chilvers Peter Chilvers was an inventor, engineer and promoter of sailing and windsurfing. He is credited with an early version of a sail powered surfboard. He died from lung cancer on 26 February 2015. Life Chilvers had been an engineer for Lotus a ...

– co-producer, recording, programming, keyboards, vocoder *

Leo Abrahams Leo Matthew Abrahams (born 1977 in Camden, London) is an English musician, composer and producer. He has collaborated with a multitude of professional musicians, including Brian Eno, Katie Melua, Imogen Heap, Jarvis Cocker, Carl Barât, Regina ...

– guitar *

Jon Hopkins Jonathan Julian Hopkins (born 15 August 1979) is an English musician and producer who writes and performs electronic music. He began his career playing keyboards for Imogen Heap, and has produced but also contributed to albums by Brian Eno, ...

– keyboards *Nell Catchpole – violin, viola *Nuria Homs – voice *Members of the Elgin Marvels – voice *

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– voice

Charts

References