Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (LP)

Released January 1974 Here Come The Warm Jets was Brian Eno's debut solo release following his departure from Roxy Music. The album draws on his glam & prog roots but its experimental nature also made it unlike anything that'd come before. On November 11, 2017 Astralwerks Records will release a single LP vinyl reissue of this landmark debut album. By the time Brian Eno left Roxy Music and came to record this masterpiece of a debut in 1973, he already held in his grasp the raw tools to revolutionize popular music. HERE COME THE WARM JETS is bathed in his singular pop-with-a-wink aesthetic and free-associative imagination. Whether on the four-on-the-floor pre-punk stomp of "Needles In The Camel's Eye" or the Spector/VU trad-rock-ism of "Cindy Tells Me," the album displays an unabashed love of quirky, catchy pop. Macabre lyrics often subvert the melodies, a feature fully expressed on "Baby's On Fire," where the singer's cheeky vocals exaggerate the theme's comic ambiguity.On two quite