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May 15, 2014Someday World is an fully realized blend of electronic and acoustic sounds that elevates the mundane, austere details in the lyrics into a state of ecstasy.
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May 5, 2014Not a misstep for Eno, but not quite the best of both worlds, either.
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May 5, 2014Despite its serious flaws, it is nice to see Eno making this kind of music again since his relative absence in the noughties, and for Hyde it is a hopeful stepping-stone to a productive, engaging solo career.
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May 5, 2014Someday World never devolves into Tin Machine-style disaster, but it rarely manages to realize its collaborative potential either.
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May 1, 2014At times the dreaded accusation of self-indulgence feels appropriate, and some of the songs here feel like sketches that still need fleshing out.
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May 6, 2014Most of the album wanders, zany but directionless, among sound effects borrowed from a ’70s action-adventure soundtrack, where one never quite grasps the thread of the confusing storyline.
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The WireJul 17, 2014Aside from the odd flurry of inconsequential Afrobeat-inflected guitar, the style of Someday World is middlebrow session fare. [May 2014, p.61]
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May 29, 2014The things that’s most frustrating about Someday World, then, is not that some of the songs are great and some aren’t. Instead, it’s that there seems to be another, much better album lurking in here.
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May 27, 2014It’s an uneven album, with stretches that were probably more fun in the studio than on replay.
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May 5, 2014With its jarring synthetic brass--which is neither as charming or amusingly ironic as its creators seem to think it is--Someday World starts off on the wrong foot from the very first bars.
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UncutMay 1, 2014Too busy with ideas for its own good. [Jun 2014, p.76]
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May 7, 2014Once one grows comfortable with the album’s prevailing electro-acoustic ambiance, the repetitive song structures do little to add energy to the beleaguered soundscapes.
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May 15, 2014"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.
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May 5, 2014Ultimately Someday World is undeniably disappointing. For something that promised so much and to deliver so woefully little is an injustice to each respective side of the partnership.