Eno's mid Seventies have something for every artistically inclined person surely. The elan of Roxy. The daring of Bowie. The sexual charge of The Velvets. The oriental air of Television. The Germanic playfulness with underlying earnestness and angst of Kraftwerk and Can.
But they also have something that is all Eno. Like his greatest musical parallels John Cale and Richard Hell Eno had been ousted from the nest he was hatched into partly no doubt though the competitive spirit and spite which makes people form bands in the first place, But he wasn't gelded, His wings weren't clipped. Listen to this ....
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