Brian Eno "Another Day on Earth"

Replace the pejorative "recycles" with "uses" and I'll agree with you. So what if it sounds similar to other stuff he's done, though? The overall impact is very different, unsettling in a more subtle way. Everything sounds more fragile, and more definitely situated in relation to a big uncertain world outside the album itself.

It's engaging but just in a different way. Haven't decided whether this or Drawn from Life is better. I do have some quibbles though - 'This' sounds like a Wrong Way Up outtake and doesn't really fit with the rest of the record. And he should really stop designing his own packaging.

Final verdict: I'm just grateful it wasn't another Drop.

seconding naive teen idol about how nobody is mentioning the beauty of "and then so clear." sounds so great when you turn it up... really warm bass and then the double-tracking of the vocals... one with vocoder, the other plain, is simply amazing.

i also keep listening to "bone bomb" over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFAH2cnNlMk

so many people shrugged their shoulders at this but i love it almost as much as the first four "vocal" albums

Me too!