Comments for Eno, Brian, Nerve Net

Kind of interesting. A couple of tracks sound just like the old Eno/Byrne collaborations, making one suspect that those were more Eno than Byrne. There's an attempt by Eno to update his sound, and he does manage to do that (well enough that Bowie & U2 are willing to pay him mega-bucks to do the same for them). However this is not really working on a comparable level to much of the acid jazz/trip-hop type stuff which it takes some of its aesthetic from. My favorite track is track 3, a real oddity wherein Eno mixes a nice drum track with his own William Burroughs impersonation. Much of the second half of this is pretty interesting, especially the last 20 minutes or so which uses beats but maintains the usual Eno air of ambience & intriguing lack of form. To summarize - it's O.K.

I used to love this album, as you might guess from the email address, but after an initial infatuation, I''ve retreated back to Warm Jets, Green World, etc. It''s listenable and mostly enjoyable, but there''s something lacking in the warmth department. Where the early rock albums gave the impression of emotions you could never quite get a grip on, this gives no grip, but also not much emotion. Instead, you get sounds and experiments, neither of which are as successful when not in the service of something to hold on to. Very elusive, I guess. Too much so for me.

Written & produced by Brian Eno.Comparisons can be made to U2`s 1991 album "Achtung Baby" which Brian Eno co-produced.Some amazing sounds.