Another Green World is the sort of music you listen to at 2 am with your headphones on while you try to compose a piece of writing that expresses something essential about yourself, and yet you can't help stopping every now and then to listen to the strange instrumentation easing in and out of songs like "Sky Saw," which features popping bass lines, belching synths, and Brian Eno's brief vocals. Most of the tracks on AGW have no vocals, which is no matter, for the music is haunting, deftly engineered to simultaneously hold your interest while being background noise. "St. Elmo's Fire" sounds like an accidental pop song by a prog band; "In the Dark Trees" is a sombre piece that conjures images of derelict alleyways and perpetual rain. Eno's music is always drenched in imagery--he really is a born painter who became a musician. The guitar work that runs through this album is amazing, in my humble, garage-rocker opinion, thanks to Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame. The crescendoing brilliance of "The Big Ship" makes me envious of Eno while being thankful songs like it exist. This is an album of many moods, but it all sounds so easy and relaxed, as though everyone involved in its composition had a great time. My favorite song is "Sombre Reptiles," a prehistoric minor key melody meant to be listened to in the dark, where your thoughts are the loudest. I'm listening to this album while writing about it, and I'm going to let it play start to finish. That's love, friends.
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