Thursday Afternoon

Thursday Afternoon is the tenth solo studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released in October 1985 on EG Records. Consisting of one eponymous 60-minute composition, it is the rearranged soundtrack to an 80-minute video production of the same title made in 1984.

At just one track lasting 60 minutes, the music is ambient: beatless, flowing and ethereal. Remixing and rearranging from the soundtrack to suit the CD medium, Eno stated: "... the music wasn't recorded digitally. It was recorded on a 24-track analogue machine, and then digitally mastered."

An acoustic piano plays a series of notes and simple chords against a background of synths, which eventually dominate the entire soundscape. Though the composition sounds "static", in the sense that its length makes it seem like a solid "lump" of sound, it features many unstable elements that change in both timbre and volume over its entirety.