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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
by Brian Eno + David Byrne

Brian Eno + David Byrne reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 74 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.4 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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The sophomore album for the two rock legends was released digitally on their Web site, with a physical CD due later in the fall.

LABEL: TODO MUNDO
RELEASE DATE: 25 November 2008
DISCS: 1 disc
GENRE(S): Rock

NOTES: Digital release 18 Aug 2008.


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90
Tiny Mix Tapes
Everything that Happens Will Happen Today is the product of one of the better collaborations that modern music has known.
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88
The Phoenix
Everything That Happens is a brilliant addition to a creative partnership that has yielded so much and shouldn’t have taken 27 years to rekindle.
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80
Village Voice
Byrne's singing was never exactly the first thing you loved about him--he so often has the high-pitched blankness of a sustained yawn. But he sounds lovely here, age bringing a surer and rawer tone along with more confidence in his question mark.
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80
Billboard
While Everything is firmly grounded in Eno and Byrne's previous work, their mutual commitment to musical exploration ensures the album rarely sounds like something we've heard before.
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80
Drowned In Sound
For those exhausted by a modern landscape, where playing a game of spot the musical reference is de rigueur when approaching every new release, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is certainly a welcome relief.
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80
Rolling Stone
With their new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, the pair rejoin the rock conversation as if they'd never left.
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80
Uncut
It's mostly beautiful, and very civilised. [Oct 2008, p.81]
80
Slant Magazine
By this point in his career, Byrne's voice has a comforting effect, and the rest of the album builds on this feeling, the lyrics clever if not a little standard, and the music catchy and inviting.
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80
PopMatters
All the proof you need is how buoyant and energized this album leaves you feeling. Hallelujah.
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76
Pitchfork
It's an enjoyable listen in the here and now, which is all an album has to be, even when created by giants.
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70
Blender
It’s a modest record, but also the first Byrne album in decades to feel sprung from outside the ex-Head’s head space.
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70
Dot Music
Eno and Byrne's twist, however, is the optimism and hope that breathes through every minute of what is not another boundary-demolishing collaboration, but a delicately crafted work that could only have been recorded after dispensing with the rules.
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60
Spin
The second duo record by the former Talking Heads frontman and his experimental producing partner is a thoughtful singer-songwriter exercise. [Oct 2008, p.104]
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60
cokemachineglow
The terrible truth of this album hangs stupidly overhead--that it’s a yawner.
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60
The Guardian
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today may be an album of subtle pleasures, but they are pleasures all the same.
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60
Observer Music Monthly
A record on which electronics and a grown-up wistfulness meet in a charming, comfortable manner.
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50
Under The Radar
An underwhelming collection that lacks focus and rarely lives up to the lofty aspirations of these two titans of modern music. [Fall 2008, p.79]
40
Austin Chronicle
Thirty years after first collaborating on the Talking Heads, these two don't have to mine the past since there's nothing that remarkable about Everything.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this album is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Xax gave it a9:
It's a lovely album, so so honest and lacking any pretentiousness. The funny thing is that it sounds like a mix of early Eno pop (Warm Jets et al) with late Byrne's Talking Heads, and it works to me. Won't be a hallmark as Life in the Bush of Ghosts but will remain as another example of a good work by Eno. Everything this man touches becomes....good.

Charlie gave it a9:
Its a brilliant work.

Henry M. gave it a9:
Better than expected. A lot of great tunes like "Home", "My Big Nurse", "The River", "Wanted for Life" etc. It has a couple of songs that didn't have to be on, but overall is excellent. One of the favorite quotes from album: " When you close your eyes do you picture money? Than the change is mine." - Wanted for Life.

Rady F. gave it a10:
Frankly this cd made me remember why I loved talking heads .... the music is unbelivable - Eno is in top form and Davids singing and lyrics are very subtle and complex....it definately will grow on you.

[Anonymous] gave it an8:
This is a record that will get better for each listen! I Like.

B. P. gave it a9:
Gospel-tinged and warm, this album contains a lot of subtle pleasures, like the upbeat "Strange Overtones" and the joyous "One Fine Day." It's NOT "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts Vol. II" (not that there'd be anything wrong with that); this is something as unique as you'd expect coming from these two brilliant minds.

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