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Another Day on Earth
Another Day on Earth is an ambient song cycle that is full of yearning and a mood that Brian Eno has called "brave and resigned." Even in song, Eno is a master of ambience, creating detailed soundworlds and lyrics that don't so much make sense as create a feeling. It's taken him 15 years to create a new vocal album, and the songs span that time, with the welcome reprise of "Under," a devastatingly beautiful hymn of loss and redemption that dates back to 1991's aborted, unreleased My Squelchy Life album. It's turned up before on the Cool World soundtrack and Eno Box II: Vocals. Joining "Under" as one of Eno's most sublime songs is "And Then So Clear," a paean of wasted longing and hope with its cycling rhythm, ethereal guitars, and pitch-shifted vocal harmonies. You can hear Eno's love of gospel music on "This" and "Bottomliners," and can almost picture them in a particularly pensive Baptist church with his double-tracked vocals emulating a solemn choir. But it's not all minor-key reflection. Eno also unleashes a couple of fractured tunes, like "Bonebomb," which is from a project in which he mutated the meter of poets reciting their works. Another Day on Earth is a more personal album from the ambient avatar, a recording of rare and meticulous maturity. --John Diliberto Eno in Song: Performer and Producer 
For Your Pleasure, Roxy Music | 
Here Come the Warm Jets | 
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | 
Remain in Light, Talking Heads | 
Heroes, David Bowie | 
The Joshua Tree, U2 |
Manufacturer: Hannibal
Price Range: $11.18 - $17.98
 Another Day on Earth
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| User Reviews |  | Sublime Eno
rating: 5
Eno amazingly continues to mature. Albeit the fanbase may have difficulties Eno-volving. Beautiful, simply beautiful. If you are a fan of Eno w/ Lyrics, ala Another Green World, make your purchase. I highly doubt you'll regret it after the 85th listening. Stunning. Tearjecking. Heartrending. Listen and evolve.
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Subtle and thoughtful
rating: 5
There are no tracks like "Baby's on Fire" or "King's Lead Hat," but much of this album is reminiscent of Eno's mellower songs on his first four albums. Particularly beautiful are "Caught Between," "How Many Worlds," "Bottomliners," and "Just Another Day," all of which are equal in quality to Eno's early vocal material.
Eno's lyrics always seemed to be created for sonic effect rather than for depth of meaning, but on this album his words and thoughts come to the fore. Particularly striking is the final track, "Bone Bomb," which analyzes the psychology of a female suicide bomber.
For those who have never heard Eno sing, he is not a great vocalist. His voice does have a haunting quality about it that grows on you, however. Inge Zazaliene adds a nice touch in "Going Unconscious," and Aylie Cooke's reading of the lyrics of "Bone Bomb" makes a strong impression.
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FIVE STAR STUFF
rating: 5
Not as good as WARM JETS or TAKING TIGER MTN (how could it be?), but still, some mighty fine Eno-ite stuff here. A few fillers, but most of the tracks pay off on repeated listening.
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Mature; it's growing on me
rating: 4
It didn't hit me over the head right away, not like his classic 1970's vocal albums when he was the old multi-colored, multi-gendered alien invader Capt. Eno, right after he left Roxy Music. But gawrsh, that was over 30 years ago; there would be something wrong, if he hadn't grown, if he were frozen in (admittedly fantastic) time, if he still did the same things he did back then, right?
So, now, "this" (pun intended, from the lyrics of one song) it is growing on me, creeping along in my subconscious memory, after a few replays...... and I think that's kind of his matured intention.
Engaging the subliminal ... Not a direct square hard brick, not a smoking "Baby's on Fire", but rather, a .... ? a growing sense of deja vu, something you remember out of a dream?
I mean, these are songs, with great production, lyrics, his honest/imperfect voice, way more upfront than some "ambient" soundscape, but still sharing, or growing out of, that same sense of surrealistic haunting, established by some of his best "ambient" works.
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Another Day on Earth
rating: 4
One of his bests with Ambient 1, music for airports. Great mix between electronics and sing. Very nice!
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