My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

This week im only receiving sht lowk

I woul love to live this album, but I don't.

I thought I'd enjoy this a bit more than I did

Favorite track(s): Mea culpa, Regiment, Help Me Somebody, The Jezebel Spirit, Moonlight in Glory

This is what happens when you get two of history's most quirked up white boys in the studio together.

Cool futuristic-sounding record that's a bit of a complicated mess, leaning a bit cluttered in its experimentation. If it hadn't, though, I imagine it would have been a boring new age mess instead, which would have been much worse. So I don't know if I want to give this a higher score for that reason. Oh well. Still a big Eno guy regardless.

Boy, Brian Eno is all over the place for me. Here come the Warm Jets was a trashcan album, but Music for Airports was a 5 star banger. Another Green World was 4 stars exceptional, and Before and After Science was a 3 star, mostly good but a little dated.

Now we have Life in The Bush Of Ghosts and it is good. Very good. It's WAY better than Before And After Science, but I don't think it resonates as much as Another Green World. So 3.5 stars would be about right, but of course, we don't have half stars.

Because my 3 star rating has started to devolve into "meh" albums, this one gets 4 stars. Which is a bit too high, but not a crime like 3 stars would be.

I'll start to like a song and dig whatever's going on and then it just keeps going on and on and on and on and on and on all the same....

I appreciate most of the work Brian Eno does, but this album was way too David Byrne forward - many of the songs sounded like instrumental stems of talking heads songs. That mixed with repetitive audio loops that were too long and uninteresting, and the prayer lean which was taken. Really just a mess that is mildly elevated through Eno's skill. 2/5

𝘔𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 plays like a collision of ideas — part atmospheric experimentation in the vein of Bowie’s “𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴”, part rhythm-driven exploration that anticipates the aesthetic of 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. Found voices, fragmented samples and restless percussion drive the record forward, but the experience can feel more like a fascinating experiment than a fully cohesive album. The sound world is inventive and influential, yet a bit detached, as if the concept itself matters more than the emotional impact. Interesting, clever, sometimes striking — but not consistently gripping.

Before Madlib, MF Doom, and RZA, Byrne/Eno were the first incorporators of vocal snippets that engender a kind of immersive and documentarian experience: from Ray Taliaferro of KGO Newstalk AM 810 to Reverend Paul Morton and Lebanese singer Samira Tewfik, these samples prompt worldly perceptions w/o committing the crimes of a poacher like McLaren. The two were also able to sustain enuf funkiness throughout to engage my dance-wise senses. However, what I love about the Talking Heads, especially w/ Eno, as well as Brian's solo work, is missing here: this is nerd music, plain and complex, w/ almost no emotional depth. I feel it percussively, and I can dig its influence, but the two of 'em made far better records than it. Nerds!

This is some very weird shit. It sounds like the backing tracks to a bunch of rap songs without the rapping. I can see this being influential on the rap and electronic music scenes, but it doesn't really hit with me. There are some good parts, but a lot of it is just weird for weird's sake. It might be some kind of highbrow art, but if flew way over my head if that's the case.

I know it's innovative and influential, but at the end of the day it's just samples and I don't care for that.

2.0/5.0: Disappointing

a few good grooves, but mostly just a collage of samples which did not make for a very enjoyable listen

Definitely weird music.

I sat up seeing that this album was by Eno as I have recently come to have a new found appreciation for his talent after paying attention to his work with Roxy Music. I wouldn’t say that the albums they made after he left were bad, but I feel his contribution led to some of the most intricate and interesting songs of their work. But here is the rub – David Byrne – Not really a fan of Talking heads and it feels like he is the dominant partner here. I don’t mind songs that don’t fit into the traditional mould but this felt cold to me hence the score.

Some real earworm grooves in this one. Great work music...really able to channel and get in the zone. 4/5

I think this might have been an influence on Radiohead, given its experimental sound. I liked it but not that much.

This is very much my kind of album. Bit of a weird one to review because sometimes I give an album 2 stars because it’s not for me but I understand why it’s on this list. I think this is the opposite, there are better entry points for this type of ambient/electronic music, hopefully they’re also on the list!

Kept my interest throughout but wasn’t as instantly rewarding as any Talking Heads or solo Eno records I’ve heard. Definitely worthy of further listening.

Sounded like the soundtrack to 3 or 4 different movies that I don't really care if I ever see. There was some interesting stuff in here, but I was bored.