The Ship was originally conceived from experiments with three-dimensional recording techniques and is loosely based upon, in Eno‘s own words ‘a fascination with the sinking of the Titanic and humankind’s balance “between hubris and paranoia.”’. Opening with in many ways, the album’s centrepiece The Ship, Eno draws out a vast horizon of cinematic ambience for almost six minutes before his carefully placed vocal washes to the forefront of the audio field, spilling forth tales of The Ship and its travels across the ocean. His voice melts into the surroundings, and in true ambient style fades into the music as if it were an instrument while the words slowly lose all meaning, becoming another layer on top of the stillness of the synths on which they have been overlaid. After fifteen minutes or so the sounds slowly fracture and darkness falls as fragments of radio signals and half heard vocals float to the top of the audio, before the track comes to its end.

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