All My Favorite Songs #26: Spider And I

Most of the songs we've chatted about to date been pretty upbeat; hell, even the previous Brian Eno selection was on the thrashier side. Not so here. "Spider And I," the final track on the last of his 70s vocal albums, 1977's Before And After Science (after which he would spend years focusing entirely on instrumental ambient music, along with his varied production work) is hushed and hypnotic, largely just Eno's voice and a cascade of gentle synths. It's a stunningly beautiful piece, slowly buil...