Eno/Cale

• Wrong Way Up [Opal/Warner Bros., 1990] A-

See Also:

• David Byrne & Brian Eno
• John Cale
• John Cale and Terry Riley
• Eno
• Brian Eno
• Brian Eno/David Byrne
• Fripp & Eno
• Jon Hassell/Brian Eno
• merge all

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Wrong Way Up [Opal/Warner Bros., 1990]
After years of big-money production jobs and new age environments, we know Eno for a middlebrow dabbler--no longer can he dazzle us with unpretentious impassivity. And if his return to song form seems too easy, well, maybe it was. Nevertheless, this sea of permutation is the followup Another Green World deserved. He's been synthesizing rhythms so long he makes them sound organic--we get not only world-beat echoes but the soul shuffle his singing is now up to. As for the other guy, he hasn't sounded so sure of his ground since he played second fiddle to Lou Reed. A-