Another Day on Earth
Label: Hannibal
Rated: NONE
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s been more than 10 years since Eno’s last “pop” album (1992’s Nerve Net). In fact, it’s been so long, and the intervening years have seen so many Eno variations on electronic experimentation, that one easily could have come to the conclusion that he had abandoned the idea of making song-based music under his own name. Thankfully, that’s not the case, and Another Day on Earth is a warm and dreamy record that, though more formally “pop” in nature, is neither predictable nor pedestrian. Evoking the more sublime and expansive colors of Another Green World, rather than the forceful angles of Warm Jets, the only drawback of songs like the hazy title track and the languid, glitchy funk of “This” is that we’re unlikely to be blessed with a follow-up in this style for another decade or so.
This article appears in Jun 22-28, 2005.