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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
by Brian Eno + David Byrne
The sophomore album for the two rock legends was released digitally on their Web site, with a physical CD due later in the fall.
| LABEL: |
everythingthathappens.com |
| RELEASE DATE: |
18 August 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock |

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90
Tiny Mix Tapes
Everything that Happens Will Happen Today is the product of one of the better collaborations that modern music has known.

88
The Phoenix
Everything That Happens is a brilliant addition to a creative partnership that has yielded so much and shouldn’t have taken 27 years to rekindle.

80
Village Voice
Byrne's singing was never exactly the first thing you loved about him--he so often has the high-pitched blankness of a sustained yawn. But he sounds lovely here, age bringing a surer and rawer tone along with more confidence in his question mark.

80
Billboard
While Everything is firmly grounded in Eno and Byrne's previous work, their mutual commitment to musical exploration ensures the album rarely sounds like something we've heard before.

80
Drowned In Sound
For those exhausted by a modern landscape, where playing a game of spot the musical reference is de rigueur when approaching every new release, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is certainly a welcome relief.

80
Rolling Stone
With their new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, the pair rejoin the rock conversation as if they'd never left.

80
Uncut
It's mostly beautiful, and very civilised. [Oct 2008, p.81]
76
Pitchfork
It's an enjoyable listen in the here and now, which is all an album has to be, even when created by giants.

70
Blender
It’s a modest record, but also the first Byrne album in decades to feel sprung from outside the ex-Head’s head space.

70
Dot Music
Eno and Byrne's twist, however, is the optimism and hope that breathes through every minute of what is not another boundary-demolishing collaboration, but a delicately crafted work that could only have been recorded after dispensing with the rules.

60
Spin
The second duo record by the former Talking Heads frontman and his experimental producing partner is a thoughtful singer-songwriter exercise. [Oct 2008, p.104]

60
cokemachineglow
The terrible truth of this album hangs stupidly overhead--that it’s a yawner.

60
The Guardian
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today may be an album of subtle pleasures, but they are pleasures all the same.

60
Observer Music Monthly
A record on which electronics and a grown-up wistfulness meet in a charming, comfortable manner.

50
Under The Radar
An underwhelming collection that lacks focus and rarely lives up to the lofty aspirations of these two titans of modern music. [Fall 2008, p.79]
40
Austin Chronicle
Thirty years after first collaborating on the Talking Heads, these two don't have to mine the past since there's nothing that remarkable about Everything.


The average user rating for this album is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
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