Someday World
Someday World is a collaboration album by British musician Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, of British electronic group Underworld, released on 5 May 2014. The album features a number of supporting musicians, including Coldplay's Will Champion, John Reynolds, and Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, and was produced by Brian Eno with 20-year-old Fred Gibson. It was followed two months later by the album High Life.
Background
It was Eno's first album since Lux in 2012 and his first collaboration album since Drums Between the Bells with Rick Holland in 2011. It is also Hyde's second album after Edgeland in 2013, which Eno contributed a remix to. Eno previously worked with Karl Hyde in 2009 as part of Pure Scenius, and in 2011 collaborated with Underworld on the track "Beebop Hurry".Reception
Someday World has received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 62, based on 26 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".Track listing
- "The Satellites" – 5:33
- "Daddy's Car" – 4:50
- "A Man Wakes Up" – 4:17
- "Witness" – 5:06
- "Strip It Down" – 4:43
- "Mother of a Dog" – 5:37
- "Who Rings the Bell" – 5:05
- "When I Built This World" – 5:44
- "To Us All" – 3:28
- "Big Band Song"
- "Brazil 3"
- "Celebration"
- "Titian Bekh"
Personnel
- Brian Eno – artwork, production, brass, piano, synthesizer, keyboards, bass, guitar, program drums, drums, vocals, background vocals
- Karl Hyde – cover photograph, guitar, vocals, harmonica, tambourine, piano, synthesizer, talking drum, background vocals