- Record Label: TODO MUNDO
- Release Date: Nov 25, 2008
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Everything that Happens Will Happen Today is the product of one of the better collaborations that modern music has known.
-
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.
-
Everything That Happens is an unexpected album, but a stirring one nonetheless.
-
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.
-
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.
-
With their new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, the pair rejoin the rock conversation as if they'd never left.
-
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.
-
UncutIt's mostly beautiful, and very civilised. [Oct 2008, p.81]
-
By this point in his career, Byrne's voice has a comforting effect, and the rest of the album builds on this feeling, the lyrics clever if not a little standard, and the music catchy and inviting.
-
All the proof you need is how buoyant and energized this album leaves you feeling. Hallelujah.
-
Here, Eno, who wrote the music, opts for a more familiar sound, mixing electronic elements and acoustic guitars to create cottony, unobtrusive pop songs.
-
This is unfettered joyful listening, and in its own small way, even profound.
-
It's an enjoyable listen in the here and now, which is all an album has to be, even when created by giants.
-
Where Eno falters, Byrne picks up the slack. In a first for the notoriously skeptical artist, Everything that Happens is cautiously optimistic, maybe even hopeful.
-
FilterIf you generally like Byrne's music, you will unquestionably enjoy this record. If you've come looking for revolution, I'd recommend a time machine. [Holiday 2008, p.100]
-
It’s a modest record, but also the first Byrne album in decades to feel sprung from outside the ex-Head’s head space.
-
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.
-
A record on which electronics and a grown-up wistfulness meet in a charming, comfortable manner.
-
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today may be an album of subtle pleasures, but they are pleasures all the same.
-
The terrible truth of this album hangs stupidly overhead--that it’s a yawner.
-
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]
-
The WireThis mood of rocking-chair wistfulness becomes soporific, and there are times when, frankly, the mind, unjabbed by the sort of stimulus that was once Byrne & Eno's stock in trade, begins to wander. [Oct 2008, p.54]
-
Under The RadarAn underwhelming collection that lacks focus and rarely lives up to the lofty aspirations of these two titans of modern music. [Fall 2008, p.79]
-
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.
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 21 out of 27
-
Mixed: 2 out of 27
-
Negative: 4 out of 27
-
Apr 8, 2013
-
noddinnofFeb 6, 2009
-
SimonSFeb 4, 2009In their decades-long careers, Eno and Byrne have not exactly been strangers to experimental and niche musical territory but, at the same time, they