(2020) Brian Eno & John Cale - Wrong Way Up (Expanded Edition)


Review:
30th anniversary reissue of the historic coming together of two icons of leftfield music. Having both started their careers as creative forces in seminal bands (Brian Eno’s unique synthesizer treatments in Roxy Music and John Cale’s viola and bass contributions to the Velvet Underground), they’ve appeared as guest musicians on each other’s records as far back as 1974, the year in which they also made a historic live album with Nico and Kevin Ayers at the Rainbow Theatre in London. They remained friends, and the year prior to Wrong Way Up, Eno produced Cale’s Words For The Dying album. This paved the way for the pair to write and record an album together, notably the first time Eno had delivered a collection of song-based recordings since Before and After Science in 1977. The resulting album is a triumph for both artists, containing the singles “Spinning Away” and “Been There Done That”. “Brian Eno and John Cale’s 1990 collaboration is an album of contention, contrasts, cycles, and pop songs so layered and euphoric it ranks among the best albums either artist has ever made.”





Tracklist:
01 - Lay My Love
02 - One Word
03 - In the Backroom
04 - Empty Frame
05 - Cordoba
06 - Spinning Away
07 - Footsteps
08 - Been There Done That
09 - Crime in the Desert
10 - The River
11 - Grandfather's House
12 - Palanquin


Media Report:
Genre: indie-pop, reissue
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits