INSTANT KARMA
“It was a magical session”
Brian Eno on his new collaborations with Hot Chip and Michael Stipe for Earth Day
Lyrical miners: Brian Eno and Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, pictured below with Fay Milton of Savages
IT’S the classic charity song conundrum: do you write about the cause at hand and risk seeming heavy-handed? Or do you ignore it completely, with the potential implication that you don’t really care? “Of those two options,” muses Brian Eno, “the one I’m much more frightened of is ‘didactic and preachy’. I really do not go for songs that tell me what I should be thinking. I go for songs that suggest a world of some kind, an emotional place that you could be And for me, that’s usually enough of a message.”