Brian Eno

Byrne and Eno are never ones to stick to an agenda, so don't expect Everything That Happens... to sound like their 1981 breakthrough My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. With this beautiful mix of folk, electronic, country and gospel, these two are still able to prove how diversely talented they are. Byrne's shaky croons are gracefully cushioned by Eno's celestial layers of loopy electro beats, lush organs, piano and acoustic guitar. They still find room to feed their experimental hunger, though -- listen to "Poor Boy" and "I Feel My Stuff."

David Byrne and Brian Eno retreated to pop's periphery years ago, but their influence is
suddenly front and center. There are echoes of Byrne's old band, Talking Heads, in the
avant-funk of LCD Soundsystem and other dance-rock bands, and you can hear the singer's
workaday hysteria in the cadences of Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Modest Mouse's Isaac
Brock. Coldplay sought producer Eno to help them make Viva la Vida, a record t... More >