Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe unveil Liminal, third in trilogy, Oct 10

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are releasing Liminal, the third installment in their collaborative trilogy, on October 10 through Verve. The project follows the summer release of Lateral and Luminal, and the duo describe Liminal as a landmark that converges the previous two sonic worlds. Ahead of the full album, two tracks are already available: The Last To Know, a vocal-led piece, and Ringing Ocean, an instrumental piece, both paired with video visuals that mirror landscapes on each side of a central split image.

Liminal is framed by extended explanations from the artists, who articulate a clear conceptual throughline. The duo describes Lateral as a landscape painting—a sonic place—and Luminal as a dreamlike awakening, a feeling space. Liminal, they say, represents a hybrid of the two, a strange new land with a human living and feeling its way through its mysterious spaces. They further position Liminal in the borderlands between song and nonsong or nong, inviting listeners to explore an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world that remains unclaimed and ambiguous. In their own words, Liminal stands at the point of convergence between the earlier efforts and pushes into new terrain...