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May 12, 2005
Another Day On Earth
The tracklist for the first Brian Eno solo album in like 15(?) years:
01 This
02 And Then So Clear
03 A Long Way Down
04 Going Unconscious
05 Caught Between
06 Passing Over
07 How Many Worlds
08 Bottomliners
09 Just Another Day
10 Under
11 Bone Bomb
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47.5 minutes
Somehow I seem to have an advance copy, and somehow it’s one of the best albums to have come out in quite a few years. And when I say best albums I really mean albums, because it’s rare that I listen to a whole album straight through anymore. I’m not ready to abandon my favoritism toward a great 2-3 minute song, or even the recent trend I have noticed toward so-called full albums that are really only 20-30 minutes in length, but Another Day On Earth breaks my bad habit.
It somehow manages anachronism and futurism at the same time, and works conceptually as a musical contemplation on earth, the human race and personal mortality, whether listened to one song at a time, or as a whole. And as a whole it becomes one big song, each relevant to the next, all while giving the impression of being written by an individual with a remarkably introspecitve sense of self, as well as his place within humanity in it’s entirety.
You can’t fake the maturity that’s in this music. Completely genre-transcending. Utterly poignant and refeshingly free of any superficiality or sarcasm. I guess Eno is just that kind of guy.
Posted by shane at May 12, 2005 08:28 PM