Few musicians get through an interview without once referring to their brand new album.
Few interviewers get quite so engrossed in the conversation that they forget to mention it either, but that's just the way of it with Brian Eno - smarter than your average sonic pioneer and far too polite for anything as brutal as a plug. A founding member of Roxy Music, producer of Talking Heads, Devo and U2, collaborator with everyone from Fripp to Bowie, inventor of ambient music, installation artist, painter, diarist and connoisseur of construction work. Quite simply, he never stops being Brian Eno. It's a more unusual balance of things. I can hear, for instance, that someone in the distance is hammering something, I don't know exactly what, but this hammer in the background with its funny broken up rhythm and slight changes of timbre as the nail finally is flush with the wood, I think that's nice.