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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014Someday World is a joyous blend of busy rhythms and bright, surging melodies with fleeting hints of Hot Chip and Talking Heads. [Jun 2014, p.108]
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MojoMay 15, 2014Hyde and Eno's voices knit together well and the album is full of surprises. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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May 1, 2014“The Satellites” opens the album with tart trumpets over staccato guitars, “To Us All” closes it with an oceanic excursion. In between are liquid pools of guitar and chattering keyboards.
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May 1, 2014Someday World shows us our trappings and our mortality, but rather than get overly sentimental, or even revert to doom-mongering, it creates something fun.
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May 6, 2014Eno does his best to keep things floating on Someday World, but without a partner able to punch in the same weight class, their combined efforts end up uneven and lopsided.
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Jun 13, 2014Someday World sounds quite like Happy Mondays at times, and rather like King Crimson at others.
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MagnetMay 19, 2014The record is full of texture, and while it maybe isn't essential listening, it's a nice addition to both catalogs. [No. 109, p.55]
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May 5, 2014The preponderance of funky synthetic (and real) horns, fat grooves, and African and Eastern polyrhythms make Someday World an excellent exercise in beat-conscious, electronic art pop.
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May 7, 2014Things get interesting when they occasionally stray from the path.
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May 1, 2014As could be expected, Someday World has a flair for inventive interlocking compositions, but these are out of step thanks to its uneven pacing and are often palmed away by an enthusiasm for accelerated, busy instrumentation.
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May 5, 2014Someday World is well arranged, meticulously produced, even catchy at times. But there’s an overriding sense of aimlessness, of people just dropping by the studio and breezing into the songs before wafting off to a more important appointment.
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May 15, 2014Someday World is an fully realized blend of electronic and acoustic sounds that elevates the mundane, austere details in the lyrics into a state of ecstasy.
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May 5, 2014Not a misstep for Eno, but not quite the best of both worlds, either.
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May 5, 2014Despite its serious flaws, it is nice to see Eno making this kind of music again since his relative absence in the noughties, and for Hyde it is a hopeful stepping-stone to a productive, engaging solo career.
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May 5, 2014Someday World never devolves into Tin Machine-style disaster, but it rarely manages to realize its collaborative potential either.
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May 1, 2014At times the dreaded accusation of self-indulgence feels appropriate, and some of the songs here feel like sketches that still need fleshing out.
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May 6, 2014Most of the album wanders, zany but directionless, among sound effects borrowed from a ’70s action-adventure soundtrack, where one never quite grasps the thread of the confusing storyline.
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The WireJul 17, 2014Aside from the odd flurry of inconsequential Afrobeat-inflected guitar, the style of Someday World is middlebrow session fare. [May 2014, p.61]
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May 29, 2014The things that’s most frustrating about Someday World, then, is not that some of the songs are great and some aren’t. Instead, it’s that there seems to be another, much better album lurking in here.
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May 27, 2014It’s an uneven album, with stretches that were probably more fun in the studio than on replay.
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May 5, 2014With its jarring synthetic brass--which is neither as charming or amusingly ironic as its creators seem to think it is--Someday World starts off on the wrong foot from the very first bars.
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UncutMay 1, 2014Too busy with ideas for its own good. [Jun 2014, p.76]
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May 7, 2014Once one grows comfortable with the album’s prevailing electro-acoustic ambiance, the repetitive song structures do little to add energy to the beleaguered soundscapes.
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May 15, 2014"When I Built This World," a minimalist suite that feels like it's made for strings and Nintendo, is weirdly gorgeous, but otherwise this just sounds like two electronic greats e-mailing dorm-room demos.
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May 5, 2014Ultimately Someday World is undeniably disappointing. For something that promised so much and to deliver so woefully little is an injustice to each respective side of the partnership.
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May 27, 2014The result is an album of experimental electronic pop that, sadly, doesn’t do much of any consequence, sounding both big-studio glossy and curiously cheap, busy but largely flailing around in the hope of finding an interesting direction.