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Another Day On Earth
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 15 votes
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Album Info
Label: Hannibal
Release Date: 14 June 2005
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Electronic
Summary
Eno sings! And while those words are sure to excite fans of the bald one's 70s classics such as 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy),' his first vocal album in 15 years is much closer in sound and mood to more recent efforts as well as the final handful of tracks on 'Eno Box II: Vocals' (the latter's "Under" even appears again on this disc).
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Also On The Web: EnoWeb Official Album Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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Another Day... slithers easily into the company of his greatest releases, with jaw-dropping melodies and flawless, Passengers-era production, creating a soundscape as ethereal as Another Green World. [#16, p.90]
Spin
[A] cosmos-goosing masterwork. [Jul 2005, p.104]
Entertainment Weekly
In a pop world where everything feels amped up, who could have imagined that this once-chilly music could sound so comforting. [17 June 2005, p.79]
Amazon.com
Another Day on Earth is a more personal album from the ambient avatar, a recording of rare and meticulous maturity.
Read Full Review >The Guardian
The joy of hearing Eno's hushed, statesmanlike singing voice again is one thing, but the hymnal This and funky Under match anything in his canon.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
It is, like so many other pop albums, the kind of thing that grows on you and ferments into an incredible entity.
Read Full Review >Mojo
This is perhaps Eno's most personal record to date. [Jul 2005, p.102]
The Wire
A richly nuanced album, and eloquent in its restraint. [#257, p.57]
ShakingThrough.net
The majority of the vocals are so tweaked and treated, morphed and modulated as to simply lose any sense of the man himself.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Another Day is nowhere near as invested with ideas as Eno's name-making work, but its easy pleasures still rub and float away.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle
Though various tracks meander ("A Long Way Down") or are just unlistenable ("How Many Worlds"), Eno demonstrates that he's the architect who built the house most electro geeks walk around in aimlessly.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times
A fascinating look at planet Eno. [10 Jul 2005]
Pitchfork
Another Day on Earth is produced to within an inch of its life, with layers of intricate detail and the most ethereal synth washes imaginable.
Read Full Review >Dusted Magazine
While there’s no disputing the attractiveness of its well-polished recording... it’s patchy and... in places, disturbingly adult-contemporary.
Read Full Review >Blender
A record that encourages global consciousness shouldn't sound so isolated and chilly. [Aug 2005, p.110]
Uncut
Exceedingly pleasant, if hardly groundbreaking. [Aug 2005, p.104]
Q Magazine
Despite some affecting songs and intriguing production quirks, it lacks that kind of magic [of his 1970s albums]. [Jul 2005, p.113]
Paste Magazine
Invisible melodies--sometimes too invisible--give shape to songs like wind billowing through curtains. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.143]
All Music Guide
If lightweight, it is often pleasant and amusing, if not utterly engaging.
Read Full Review >Stylus Magazine
Another Day On Earth is more blank than frank, a journey through a hollow land, more discreet than it needs to be. Imagine a recording in which every human error has been scrubbed, like coffee grounds off a formica counter.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
drovduek gave it a9:
Beautiful.
Stephen J gave it an8:
When you have created masterpieces like Before and After Science, Music For Films and Music for Airports, not to mention Apollo...well I did anyway), It's extremely difficult to continue to produce works of a similar stature that will please the critics and the fans.No artist working with sound or images can churn out 'perfect' pieces of work on demand. I7m sure Brian would love to sit down at his synthesiser and say..".and now I'm going to produce another masterpiece." It just doesn't work like that..the nature of things is that you have success ,failure and .."well, I nearly did it!" situations. So it's unreasonable for us to expect perfection just because it's Brian Eno. (and Jane, if when the time comes,as it surely will, for you to hobble around with your own zimmer frame, i wonder if you will be able to look back on your accomplishments in life and find anything as significant and creditable as Eno's recording catalogue? Well, it's just a thought! ) I always thought the best thing about Eno's music is that ( if you allow it to) it allows your mind to wander where it will. It suggests and creates possibilities of thought and feeling without shouting at you like most Pop mush these days, I for one am happy that I have the option to listen to this as opposed to the often tuneless and repetitive noise of most modern day artists. in this light, I think Another Day On Earth is quite wonderful, it doesn't try too hard, it just is.It's not the best Eno, but it doesn't have to be. It is good enough...and after a hard day's work, a good meal and a hot bath is a perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of the day. Good stuff!
jyotirmaya gave it a9:
I have been waiting for Brian Eno to put out a CD like this since I first heard his song "Horse to Water" song on the hip-hypnotic Married to the Mob soundtrack (1988). There have been mentions of his first CDs in the early 70s, and I checked them out but didn't like them. Finally, a Brian Eno CD for me. It is always interesting, often gorgeous and, quite frankly, it sounds better on ear phones. This is the CD Moby's latest "Hotel" was trying to be, but fell short of a couple of notches. j.t.
jane m gave it a0:
a load of old up your arsenik eno type of detritus. wwho does he think he is? sorry, he's past it. roll on the new novelty acts. he should retire with his zimmer frame.
Rob H gave it a9:
I love the calm serenity of this album and the meaning and poetry in the lyrics. Very moving.
andy c gave it a0:
I found this latest offering from the self proclaimed professor of modern music as irritating and vacuously pretentious as the man and his writing have become in recent years. The music is an uninspired soulless debacle, as Brian audibly struggles to keep up with recording techniques he helped to seed.
Jef C gave it a10:
Yep, this is an absolute classic. Spine tingling stuff for eno fans.
