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...1970s prog rock and ambient music that inspired “Weekend Wars” and “The Handshake” are the key touchstones on this record. Heck, “Congratulations” even has a track called “Brian Eno??—one of the album’s more straightforward cuts, avoiding the numerous shifts in style that define most of the tracks. “Brian Eno?? is mainly a frantic, devoted, yet questionably-framed ode to the British producer and composer. Something about the song?...
...picture of you / standing there in my black wig / looking like, who thinks they know who?” he laments. His frankest song since 2001’s “Anything You Want,” the nostalgic misery finds directness in small lyrical details and Jim Eno??s unbroken backbeat. The pounding “Is Love Forever?” takes a more existential approach to love lost. “When I’m older, start to wonder, was that love or instinct working? / Have I even felt it ever...
...spits the lyrics with so much snarling fervor that when he shouts “I found grace” in the song’s final lap, it’s wholeheartedly convincing.Unfortunately, the rest of the album seems lost in a muddled haze, the result of Eno??s overstuffed production coupled with the band’s own overindulgence in their ambient inclinations and goofy lyrical tendencies. The addition of “No Line on the Horizon” to the band’s impressive and tremendously varied catalog surely reinforces their willingness...
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