On the table tonight the legendary, once in a lifetime genius that is Brian Eno.
Did you ever go to one of those traveling carnivals and ponder what would happen if the organ-grinder went slightly mad? Then think about that organ-grinder getting new instruments and layering all these complex and textured sounds. This is basically the sound of Brian Eno’s second solo album.
It’s impossible not to mention words like askew, off-kilter and odd when writing about Eno’s early albums. He’s all about the « art » in « art-rock/pop». His sound just like his aesthetic of the time is flamboyant and hardly contained. One can understand how he clashed with Bryan Ferry in Roxy Music.
After the go for broke experimentation of his first solo outing (« Here Come the Warm Jets ») Eno doesn’t suffer from a sophomore slump, he forages deeper, layering more sounds and delivering great melodies.
Ranging from creepy (“Fat Lady of Limbourg”) to quasi-delirious (opener “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More”) to twisty and thunderous (« The True Wheel ») Eno is fervently at ease playing around and stretching the limits of pop and rock music and on « Third Uncle » Eno basically invents post-punk before punk or anything otherwise was a thing.
I think my favorites from this era are his first solo album or the collaboration with Robert Fripp (« No Pussyfooting ») but this one is really hitting the spot tonight and I might need to reevaluate my preferences.
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Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) 1974 original US pressing.
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