Another Day on Earth

Another Day on Earth is the twenty-second solo studio album by Brian Eno, released on 13 June 2005 in the UK and Europe through Hannibal Records, and on 14 June 2005 in the US. The album predominantly recorded and mixed on Macintosh software, using Logic Pro, over a period of four years.

Overview
"Bottomliners" and "Under" were first worked on about six years previously, on a DA88, the latter songs' drumming being supplied by Willie Green. On the former, and on the ballad "And Then So Clear" he pitch-shifted his voice up an octave, using the gender-changing function on a Digitech Pro Vocalist creating a vocoder-like effect. His studio features a selection of hardware including a Lexicon Jam Man loop sampler and an Eventide H3000 Harmonizer.

The album is actually built around the "And Then So Clear" song. He says "... In one day, actually, I pretty much finished it ... I liked it so much, and I thought, how I am going release this song, and I thought, I have to write some others."

On the title track he repeatedly cut up the main phrase, so that "the listener had little windows on it." Similar "cut-up" methodologies were used for the lyrics of "This," in that he used his computer to generate some of the words.

"Under" is a nearly-identical version of a song that was on the unreleased 1991 album My Squelchy Life, which was released in 2014 as a bonus disc with a reissue of Eno's 1992 Nerve Net. It was also included in the Cool World soundtrack album.

For the ambient-style "A Long Way Down" Eno manually synchronised his vocals with an out of time keyboard melody, and on "Going Unconscious" he went back to using Koan generative music software for the textural background.

The distinctions between songs and instrumentals which contain vocals are deliberately blurred, particularly on the track "How Many Worlds": "There's just enough voice in there to make you hear it as a song, making it a bluff, a deceit."

The final track on the album, "Bone Bomb", was inspired by a newspaper story about a Palestinian girl who becomes a suicide bomber. The title refers to a point made by an Israeli doctor that when a suicide bomber detonates, the bomber's bones become shrapnel, adding to the destruction.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Brian Eno, except where noted.
 * 1) "This" – 3:33
 * 2) "And Then So Clear" – 5:49
 * 3) "A Long Way Down" – 2:40
 * 4) "Going Unconscious" – 4:22
 * 5) "Caught Between" (co-lyrics by Danny Hillis and Eck Ogilvie-Grant) – 4:25
 * 6) "Passing Over" – 4:25
 * 7) "How Many Worlds" (co-lyrics by Michel Faber) – 4:47
 * 8) "Bottomliners" – 3:59
 * 9) "Just Another Day" (additional music composed by Peter Schwalm) – 4:21
 * 10) "Under" – 5:19
 * 11) "Bone Bomb" – 3:09
 * 12) "The Demon of the Mines" (Japan only bonus track) – 4:40

Personnel

 * Vocals, multiple instruments – Brian Eno
 * Keyboards – Jon Hopkins
 * Guitar – Leo Abrahams, Steve Jones
 * Violin – Duchess Nell Catchpole
 * Piano, Synthesizer – Peter Schwalm
 * Drums – Willie Green, Peter Schwalm
 * Loops – Brad Laner, Brian Eno, Peter Schwalm
 * Effects [Occasional Signals] – Dino
 * Effects [Splutters] – Barry Andrews
 * Spoken vocals – Inge Zalaliene (track 4), Aylie Cooke (track 11)
 * Mastering – Simon Heyworth
 * Artwork by [Design & Layout] – Sarah Vermeersch
 * Photography [Back] – Qin Siyuan
 * Photography [Front], Artwork By [Cover Design] – Brian Eno