BRIAN Eno’s name is synonymous with radical departures and that makes the first few tracks of this collaboration with Karl Hyde of Underworld perplexing.

It’s a straightforward rock album, one that blindfolded testers might even mistake for McFly. Then along comes A Man Wakes Up, and we all do too. Recalling Eno’s previous work with David Byrne, it hints of promising things to come, but we are still made to wait for that promise to be fulfilled. It comes in the form of the dissonant Mother of A Dog and the free-jazz When I Built This World. Both languish way too far down the track list and are easily the high points, which neatly sums up the album’s biggest fault.

Eno once said music must be as ignorable as it is interesting and on Someday World he is as good as his word, with the first half fitting the former category as glove-like as the second half fits the latter. Eno also confesses that this album is irregular and awkward. Brian, you could have written the review yourself.