Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK

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The Village Voice FEBRUARY 14, 1977 - by Robert Christgau

DAVID BOWIE: LOW

I find side one's seven "fragments" - since the two that clock in at less than 2:45 are 1:42 and 2:20, the term must refer to structures rather than length - almost as powerful as the "overlong" tracks on Station To Station. "Such a wonderful person / But you got problems" is definitely a love lyric for our time. But the movie music on side two is so far from hypnotic that I figure Bowie, rather than Eno, must deserve credit for it. I mean, is Eno really completely fascinated by banality?