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Following last weekend's death of drummer Tommy Ramonethe towering punk band's last survivinoriginal memberEvan Minsker looks back on his personal history with the Ramones and details whTommy was so important to their entire ethos.
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In 2010, the announcement that Brian Eno had signed to Warp Records was an event. His decades-longhistory of groundbreaking electronic music had a lot to do with Warp even existing at all, so the fact he was
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going to be working with the imprint known for taking the torch in the 1990s and 2000s brought dreams ofgreat things. Lost in the excitement was the memory that Eno had for a number of years been making low-key records that made little impact outside of his cult.Another Day on Earthfrom 2005, his first song-basedsolo album in many years, had some memorable songs,and his 2008 pairing with David Byrne,EverythingHappens Today, found an audience. But 90s and 00s instrumental releases likeDrawn From Life, TheDrop,Neroli, and The Shutov Assemblydidnt come close to entering his canon. The Warp signing obscuredthe fact that Eno always had more than his share of uneven records, in part because hes never been the sortof artist interested in perfection. So the fact that four of the records and collaborations released on Warp have
ranged from a lovely retread of familiar ground (2012sLux) to eminently forgettable collaborations (thetworecordswith poet Rick Holland, and the firstwith Underworlds Karl Hyde) should surprise nobody.
High Life, though, is a genuine surprise. As the second meeting between Eno and Hyde in the last fourmonths, it would have been reasonable to expect outtakes, another set of OK half-songs to accompany theones released earlier this year. ButHigh Liferecorded in just five days, with much of it played andprocessed liveis something else altogether. This is Enos best vocal album in 25 years, since his 1990collaboration with John Cale, Wrong Way Up. Its interesting to go back that far becauseHigh Lifehas a fewthings in common with that record, most prominently the elements inspired bypop musicfrom the Africancontinent. Yes, this is a recurring obsession of Enos, dating back at least to his first co-billed collaborationwith David Byrne, 1981sMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts. But onHigh Lifeits again made explicit, from the
title (Highlife is a broad genre of jazz-inflected West African pop music that emerged late in the last century)on down.
That said, many of the references are less musical and more textural, and guitars are the first thing you noticeThe opening Return is nine minutes of drone-guitar bliss, as Karl Hyde strums two chords furiously withthe sort of pinched, trebly, delay-heavy tone that evokes both West African styles and the Edge circaTheUnforgettable Fire. The tension of pivoting between those two chords without resolution is softened byEnos voice, which he layers into sturdy central melody softened by billowing harmonies. Its the kind ofblindingly simple thing that nobody does better than Eno, and it points to why this record towers over muchof his recent outputit soundsanalog, like people in a room playing who could make mistakes. Despite histechnological pedigree, Eno has always been most inspired by the place where abstract mathematics meet the
messiness of nature. His earlier collaborative efforts on Warp, as well asSmall Craft on a Milk Sea, felt likerecords where meaning was carved from endless possibility;High Lifeshows how much more he can wringout of just a handful of ideas.
If Im leaning heavily toward Enos contributions here, its because so many of his songwriting andproduction signatures are in the foreground. Hyde is the guitarist throughout the record, but Enos fingerprinare all over his approach. DBF is a relatively upbeat track with a chicken scratch-funk feel that makes methink of Talking Heads Born Under Punches, while the slow and dreamy line in Time to Waste It bringto mind an 80s interpretation of King Sunny Ade. But were talking about something more than just acollection of global music signifiers hereinfluences are stripped down, transformed, and often turned intosomething disorienting and strange through Enos processing. Time to Waste It has pinched, warped, and
ultimately very weird vocals of uncertain origin which seem to be singing lead from different songs with eacnew line. Lilacs overlapping guitar lines have the frenetic pulse of classical minimalism, with odd bleepsand squawks mixing in with the chords, and theyre contrasted with the richly harmonized vocals, whichremind us how in tune he is with thepure joy of singing.
That big-hearted spirit is embedded into the record as a whole. I count one dud among the six tracks, the justOK Moulded Life, which has some nice sounds but feels a bit like processing-for-processings-sake. Butthat is more than redeemed by the elegiac closer Cells & Bells, where grinding Fennesz-like electronics areset against a mass of voices singing a dark but faintly hopeful prayer. Its a moving end to a startling andinspiring record. Enos been involved with quite a few of those in the past, but its especially nice toexperience a new one that reaches us in the present moment.
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