My favorite Eno album, as pointless an exercise as it is to "choose" one among the wonders he produced, especially in the '70s. I find it to be a perfect synthesis between Eno's Pop and the ambient experiments he was pursuing. It’s a perfect album, in the instrumentals where little Braian does everything (or almost) by himself or in his unmistakable pop ballads with beautiful melodies, accompanied by many of his usual friends-collaborators from those years (Frippolo, Cale, Turrington, etc.) and the rhythm section of the newly formed Brand X, Philco-Persi Gionz, all of it, in every piece, playing and inventing sounds between guitars and processed percussion, various synthesizers, etc. A masterpiece to be enjoyed fully, without feeling the slightest drop in energy. If I had to mention two, one for the "pop" tracks and one for the instrumentals with Eno-as-all-rounder, I would say "St. Elmo's Fire" (because where there’s a Fripp solo there’s home, and of the three with him this one is a tiny bit more beautiful) and the spectacularly enveloping and soothing "Becalmed" (rightly so).
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