- art pop, art rock, electronic, rock
- 42 min
- 10 tracks
- Land Records
Wrong Way Up is the sole collaborative studio album by Brian Eno and John Cale, originally released on October 5, 1990, on Opal and Warner Bros. Records. The album sits between the electronic, prog-rock and art rock genres and features some of both Eno and Cale's most mainstream work.
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Character-led, grave, spare and contemporary.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork8.7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Village VoiceA−
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Tracks
- 1Lay My Love4:44
- 2One Word4:35
- 3In the Backroom4:02
- 4Empty Frame4:27
- 5Cordoba4:23
- 6Spinning Away5:27
- 7Footsteps3:13
- 8Been There, Done That2:52
- 9Crime in the Desert3:42
- 10The River4:23
10 tracks, 42 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Land Records
- Released
- 1990
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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