No Line On The Horizon

No Line On The Horizon, March 2/3 2009

I've been thinking that I want to be surprised by this album ... I don't want to listen to any leaks/promos, etc. I don't even want to hear the first single (if that's at all possible) and just listen to the album in it's entirety when it drops. Wishful thinking? Maybe. It may help that I'll be away from computers for a good chunk of February.

The Edge of a new sound

“I can’t wait for this record to come out. I think we’re on the edge of a new sound.” ~ Daniel Lanois

"I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. I just bought this record the other day, I don't even know the name of the artist, because I can't read Arabic. I heard it in a newsagent around the corner and thought, wow, this is the most sophisticated production. It's completely commercial, totally Arabic and totally viable for this world, just like the blues completely suffused the music of the early 1960s, woke it up and got it out of Cliff Richard and all this sort of thing and made it kind of dirtier and rougher and more lively and sexy. I think Arabic music is a similar prospect." He grins again. "I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. Wouldn't that piss their parents off?" ~ Brian Eno