''Someday World'' is a collaboration album by British musician

Brian Eno Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist best known for his contributions to ambient music and work in rock, pop an ...

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

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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 ''

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'' in 2012 and his first collaboration album since ''

Drums Between the Bells ''Drums Between the Bells'' is a collaboration album by Brian Eno and poet Rick Holland. It was released on 4 July 2011 on Warp Records in CD, double CD 'hardback', double vinyl and download editions. "Glitch" was released in advance of the album ...

'' 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 ;Special Edition 2CD Disc 2 #"Big Band Song" #"Brazil 3" #"Celebration" #"Titian Bekh"

Personnel

– 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 ;Additional musicians and production staff

Chart positions

References

External links

Eno • Hyde homepage
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