An exquisite experiment,
Apollo takes
Brian Eno's spacescapes from albums like
Another Green World and arranges them with some heavenly pedal steel guitar by
Daniel Lanois. The recording engulfs the listener and captures the feel of space travel, weightlessness, and other sensations vividly. It's also perhaps
Eno's warmest record ever. In the end, it comes off sounding not unlike a
Grateful Dead experiment, with
Lanois' lazy pedal steel sounding quite similar to
Jerry Garcia's playing on
David Crosby's "Laughing." An excellent nighttime vehicle.
–
Matthew Greenwald, Rovi