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Rolling Stone MAY 15, 2014 - by Christoper R. Weingarten

ENO/HYDE: SOMEDAY WORLD

The first album-length collaboration from Brian Eno and Underworld frontman Karl Hyde has the slickness of '80s pop, the tricky melodies of modern indie and the appeal of neither. Eno has boasted of the album's "deliberately irregular and awkward" constructions, which could apply to the goofy synth horns, the bone-dry guitars or the herky-jerk vocals that call to mind dead-eyed versions of acts like Dirty Projectors and Vampire Weekend. When I Built This World, a minimalist suite that feels like it's made for strings and Nintendo, is weirdly gorgeous, but otherwise this just sounds like two electronic greats e-mailing dorm-room demos.