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Empty Airports JANSEN Icy, quarantine-inspired escapade from maverick Oslo electronic duo. Brian Eno intended his landmark 1976 album Airports as the first of a “small but versatile catalogue of environmental music suited to a wide variety of moods and atmospheres.” Aiming For Enrike’s Simen Følstad Nilsen and Tobias Ørnes Andersen have tipped a hat to Eno with Empty made during the pandemic when flights were grounded and people were required to stay in their homes. That ghostliness pervades the Norwegian duo’s fifth album, as well as underpinned the (dis)quiet. Forgoing the sharp-edged dance maelstrom of 2020’s Music not so much a change of gear, but more a switch to cruising in neutral and surveying the glassy landscape with the engine off. There’s a deliberate lack of urgency and a sense…

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