"Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!"
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The intent is promotional but also corrective. By promising something “even more monotonous,” Eno preps the listener to abandon rock’s usual reward system - chorus, climax, catharsis - and listen for subtler payoffs: timbral shifts, phase-like drift, the way a sustained figure can feel different once your attention settles. It’s a sly education disguised as banter.
Subtextually, it’s also a small shot across the bow at guitar-hero spectacle. Pairing Fripp’s virtuosity with the promise of monotony reframes skill as restraint. The context is mid-70s art-rock turning toward systems and process: tape loops, ambient thinking, studio-as-instrument. Eno is selling a future where “interesting” doesn’t mean crowded, and where endurance is a kind of intimacy - you stay long enough that the music’s “same-ness” starts behaving like weather. That’s the punchline: monotony isn’t absence of ideas; it’s a different scale of attention.
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Eno, Brian. (2026, January 17). Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/robert-fripp-and-i-will-be-recording-another-lp-46575/
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Eno, Brian. "Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!" FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/robert-fripp-and-i-will-be-recording-another-lp-46575/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!" FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/robert-fripp-and-i-will-be-recording-another-lp-46575/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
