Amazon.co.uk Review
Remarkably,
Brian Eno's latest studio missive "Another Day On Earth" is being touted as a long overdue collection of songs with vocals; a somewhat modest undertaking, one might surmise, from a man whose eloquent frontier ingenuity may yet proffer the world - maybe not even this world - an album consisting entirely of music you can smell. Ambient. Enossification. Classical algorithms. Electronica magus Eno - right from the get-go as a sonic graffiti squiggler with Roxy Music - has always been one for formulating new genres, inspiring extra-lexicographical adjectives or for applying new science to art. "Another Day On Earth" is best approached with these concepts in mind. Despite the tuneful abundance of such uncompounded pleasures like "How Many Worlds" (hippie schtick with strings and acoustic guitar) or the sticky funk of "Just Another Day" (which, ironically, sounds like a very professional A Certain Ratio) there's plenty of experimental finesse to flex one's festering grey matter. "Bone Bomb" is poetry addressing famine, AIDS, anorexia or maybe just mortality. "Going Unconscious" sounds like it was conceived under the drift of hypnosis. The cavernous echoes and distant water drips of "A Long Way Down" is strictly ambient, albeit for experienced potholers only. "Another Day On Earth" is another distinguished album from someone who really has earned the right to reside in a parallel universe.
--Kevin Maidment
CD Description
At the time of ANOTHER DAY ON EARTH's release in 2005, it had been 28 years since ambient-music godfather Brian Eno hadreleased an album of vocal-based songs (not counting a 1990duo record with John Cale). Eno's '70s "pop" albums were part of a different age and represented a different Eno, one who'd laid the groundwork for glam with Roxy Music and was, for all his eccentricities, very much a rock artist. Almost three decades down the line, though, with a career's worth ofinstrumental, frequently beatless electronic music behind him, Eno turned out a "song" album of a very different kind. ANOTHER DAY ON EARTH could not be farther from the rock world. Closer to Eno's ambient works of the '80s and '90s, it melds song form and traditional lyric-based templates with a floating, ethereal sonic palette. A couple of the tracks herefeature female vocals, but most are centered around Eno's own voice, a measured, low-key, yet surprisingly poignant thing that emanates spirituality and resolve in a way that seems leagues beyond the youthful brashness of, say, TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY). Liquid synthesizer lines drift along, occasionally intersecting with soft, lyrical guitars andgently undulating rhythms, making Eno's first vocal effort of the 21st century a calm yet powerful creature.
~ Brian Eno
~ Fripp And Eno
~ Brian Eno
~ Robert Eno Brian / Fripp
~ David Byrne
