Apart from the fact that this album accompanies me every night on my nocturnal journey to dreamland, I have listened to this pure masterpiece along with Brian Eno's 'ambient 2' album and Ludovico Einaudi's art over and over again every time I have been on my 'autumn walk' alone with myself. The perfect trio to let myself escape to a safe place for a while. It's amazing how much emotion listening to this album can evoke. Sitting on a bench, watching leaves falling from the trees and swans swimming on the lake, I felt emptiness and powerlessness, but also peace, as if someone was embracing me with arms full of love. A moment of reflection, an appreciation of the beauty of the surrounding nature and the people in our lives - this album describes feelings that no words can describe. I think I have discovered new levels of my sensitivity lol. Isn't it beautiful that each of us has a 'secret life' to which we can sometimes return?
The most underrated thing about this guy is not his music, but the humility and positivity with which he creates his art. There are many people who create beautiful things, but few who can do so while being a good human. It's inspiring.
In life, there are moments that you don't want to end. Not pause but slow it down, savor, observe, and see beauty in every second and every detail. This is what I imagine playing in my head during those moments.
Thanks Fred! You're something special. I'm a 45 year old guy, ear close to the floor and have never seen anyone with the musicality and talent that you have. You deserve everything my man
40 year old here, he is a breath of fresh air to the music scene. Highly talented. Some people just have that musical flair and he is very special indeed. Hope he plays at Glastonbury soon, he'd be a massive reason to go :)
I'm the same age & was loving the purity of feeling fred puts out there, and then he joins forces with fourtet who is also like that, so modest. Just personally it's amazing going from being a die hard fourtet fan in the early 00s and seeing this sound get sooo popular. It's almost enough to restore ones faith in humanity. 🙏🏼✨🔥🔊🎶
I have Fred Again playing at my wedding tomorrow (not live obviously). My Fiancee will walk down the Aisle to London Bridge Station. This man has drawn so much emotion from me, from tears to pure elation. What an amazing human he is and it's an absolute pleasure to be around with Fred Again playing through the lugholes. Big up yourself sir.
I feel an enormous sense of gratitude for this man. It brings tears to my eyes when I think about how lucky we are to be alive right now. The Fred again.. era is a special one.
Ok but the first one feels like a crisp summer dawn when the sky is still dark on a side and barely a little bit of the sunlight is visible on the other side, on the dark side you can still see the moon and the stars and on the other side you can see the purple-ish & orange-ish colors coming thru , feels exactly like a breath of fresh air , i'm just woooah , this is amazing, i love it
If you like that vibe, listen to Something in the Orange by Zach Bryan. Technically country, but such a good song and gives those same feelings I think.
Everyone is rightly focused on the music, but there is also medicine in reading the comments below. Everyone trying to put their emotions into words, and like myself, probably feeling they are inadequete. He has pulled good people together from all walks of life and all around the world.
A note for Brian: - Whenever I take a walk, whether it's rainy, sunny, cold or windy. This piece of art makes calm and happy. Especially the track cmon, it's the most floaty thing I have ever listened to, and will always listen to, whenever I walk. Thank you Eno & Fred
Brian and Fred, I really have to say thanks. I heard this at the moment when I needed it the most. I was waking up, and my sister started playing it. My girlfriend and I ended up in tears because you guys made us feel like we need to appreciate the good things more and that we are truly fortunate. We confirmed with these sounds that your music unites us and sticks us together. Thank you; we (my sister, girlfriend, and I) love you guys. Salute from Colombia.
Fred, this is beyond beautiful, no words can describe. Rarely music can be heard with soul. Bless you and your listeners, couldn't of have discovered your work in a better time, it's like a healing spell.
Fred again has always reminded me of Bon Iver by how they both create lonely, gut wrenching atmospheres and use their voices in such unique ways. Just started the album and already know this is gonna be on repeat for me. Thank you Fred, Brian and the legend himself Four Tet!
I agree. I got into bon Iver just before I discovered Fred again. I love the singer songwriter producer folks that go in 100% with their ideas. Ben Gibbard from death cab and postal service was my first artist like that. Bonobo makes some great music as well with amazing collabs. Surrounding his usual dj sets with a live bon Iver esque show live with an orchestra and conducting from the center with some headphones.
Ever since it’s release, no matter the weather, the world, the state of my own mind, this album has vibrated through the halls of my home everytime I make my way into my bed. This is the soundtrack to which I breathe, meditate, cry, journal, scream, laugh, question the universe, shout my gratitude into the ether and dream my dreams. This album has held me through heartbreak, loss, illness, heavy life changing “oh my god what the hell am I doing this is crazy but i feel it in my soul” decisions. It’s welcomed new connections into my life, it’s held me on train rides home from having 5 hour conversations that have ripped apart my soul. It’s been the soundtrack to my movie of a life unfolding. The beginning of friendships and love stories that I only dreamed possible. Its the album I play when I’m working with clients, asking them to delve deep into their psyche because I know the soundtrack will keep them safe. That this soundtrack heals. I know every note like it was written into my skin, and I’m forever begging to hear this album from start to finish in an abandoned church somewhere surrounded by candlelight and beautiful people. That would make my life! This is the soundtrack to my life, I’m grateful for every word that’s whispered, every note that is somehow intrinsically linked to part of my soul. To the star sent humans I’m now connected to because of our love for this piece of art. Did you know there’s many of us? All over the world that connected so deeply that we now have a secret lifers secret place where we talk everyday and hold each other through life? In that space there are love stories, friendships, deepest fears and wildest dreams and silliest nights shared. That was born because of this. This album is home. It’s heart. Thank you for bringing it into this world. I’ll be forever grateful. Ayisha x
listening to Secret Life when it was released, i was navigating the loss of a relationship and someone important to me. i remember vividly the emotions that had poured out because of these tracks - pain, anguish, sadness, heartache, endless tears… they allowed me to sit with the heaviness of it all. to feel the weight of my emotions & have a true cathartic release. that these tracks can evoke such feeling is a testament to how beautiful and powerfully healing this album is. Secret Life is a reminder of what it means to be human and to be able to feel so deeply. i come back to it often as a safe place. as a companion in my travels when things may feel a bit isolated and lonely. for quieter moments amongst the noise and stress of a busy everyday life. as a reminder of how much i have grown since. the beautiful friendships i’ve been able to forge as a result, and ones i find deep comfort in... i listen to Secret Life now with hope. that maybe things will be okay after all :) this music & this album has meant everything to me… so thank you both. and thank you, Brian for being the GOAT - not to be confused with a hardy domesticated ruminant animal that has backward curving horns, but rather…the Greatest Of All Time 🙇🏻♀🙏🏻👑❤ much love ❤
Fred, it's Saturday and it's raining. I'm sitting by my window watching the drops crash against the glass while I listen to your album. I feel peace. Thank you for this moment.
it's wednesday, it's raining. As I draw on fragile and beautiful paper, I look at the drops outside my window, being - I think - on the other side of the world from you, in Italy. For a moment I feel the same peace, even if the war - the real war with cities bombed, trenches full of corpses and people killed and tortured in basements - is not far from here.
Thanks Fred and Brian for this album. The whole Secret Life experience the past days has been sooo special to me, an absolutely remarkable time of life to be living in! All topped by the album finally coming out today, which is just so so special. Lots of love to everyone, who was involved in this!
Thank you for creating this incredible piece of art. An entire community, lifelong friendships have been built from listening to Secret Life together. It has changed so many of our lives and brought people together from all around the world in the most magical way. Thank you Fred, thank you Brian ❤
This album makes me wanna cry. No idea why but makes me wanna cry in a happy way. It makes me feel so calme, peaceful, and at ease with everything going on around me. Thank you guys for this❤
This is where I go when I need some softness, and a gentle reminder that it's all just a happenin' and we are all riding this beautiful fleeting thing we call life. The thing that gets me the most is that I don't even feel like I have the words to describe how this masterpiece makes me feel. It connects me to that state of flow. That feeling of being fully alive, the messiness, the beauty, it reminds me that we are not alone in the ebbs and flows. And it makes me smile and cry at the same time. I think one of the most poignant things I've discovered is that I've lived abroad most of my adult life, I rarely get home sick because I see 'home' as being wherever I am. Yet when I listen to this album it makes me miss my first home, the people and just being amongst life in the UK. Bottom line is, it makes me feel human, and that I have discovered a whole new spectrum of connecting and feeling, and for that alone I want to thank you both for existing and creating what you do. SOOO much love ❤❤❤
Brian, Fred, Thank you for bringing this into the world. My wife and I find ourselves listen to this album nearly every night as we wind down for bed. I've memorize the coordinates of each beat, or had them gently engrained in me. I hum along when melodies rise out from the ether. I forget I'm listening, and then realize I've been organizing my thoughts of the day into beautiful coves and groves within this sonic landscape. I am grateful to be able to spend these moments dwelling in music that envelopes you at the speed of feeling.
Words cannot express how much this album means to me. I grew up listening to Brian Eno, and now later in my life Fred is my current favorite artist. I have spent the past two years in school for music and graciously under the mentorship of an amazing musician, and there have been many times in my journey that I have thought back to Freds words talking about his relationship with Brian. A mentor-mentee relationship is so so important and rare and a beautiful thing, and this album absolutely represents that. This album came out the final week of my classes with this person, and we were able to share our love for this album together as well as connect to how that relationship sounds so beautiful when put into music. Thank you both for such an incredible piece of art
perfect for my finals that are coming . It is relaxing and helps me to focus. Fred again you have been through my whole med school journey and i am thankful for the joy you brought to my hard times studying . peace
Your music is like a salve for the heart, mind and soul. You helped me find my way out of the dark last year, and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Your music is changing lives for the better, and I just want to say thank you for inspiring me to change mine. From the center of my being, I thank you for your artistry and for the love you put into your music. You’ve helped me dream and dance again, without fear, with love… with hope. I am grateful. Truly, grateful. Thank you.
bro, you`re so cringe bro. Reading your comment has made this artist cringe for a moment. "salve for the heart" - bro spend more time reading, socialising and not gaming.
Hi Brian (and Fred)! It’s wild that this album is almost a year old. You guys gave us such a fun week with the filtered broadcasts leading up to release. It was my second most played album last year and kicked off a season of emotional healing. It’s so hard to pick a favorite on an album like this that’s a no-skips-single-experience kind of thing, but I think my favorite track is safety because I adore the staves x Bon Iver sample. Cheers guys, hope this year is good to you 🌺
This is my perfect Sunday morning walking soundtrack. Usually start with Come On Home (what a treat if the accurate lyric was published to it) then keep looping it. The vinyl edition is wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you to you both! This is now in my arsenal to use to decompress when life gets too overwhelming. I hope you have more of this genre in store. It would be lovely to experience a set like this for a sunrise one day.
2 minutes in and I'd teared up, 8 minutes in and I had a little cry. I'm studying music and wondered if i even wanted to anymore - Fred, you just gave me my love for music back.
I love listening to this when I just need to have some “calm” in my life, whether that be out on a run after a stressful day, or just to help me get to sleep. This makes me feel a certain way that no other piece of music makes me feel, it’s spine tingling and transforming
This album has helped me heal in many ways. To me it has been “the calm after the storm” in various moments, specially on those where I have felt the need to reconnect with myself, accept my thoughts and emotions and truly let myself feel. This isn’t something easy for me but I feel like Fred and Brian’s music creates a safe place in which I feel strong enough to withstand the pain of those raw emotions. I’d even say it’s like a medicine to me because it always ends up making me practice self compassion and perceiving life with gratitude.
Brian & Fred, listening to this album is the equivalent of tapping into all the hidden and unseen feeling on the entire spectrum of human emotion. Thank you for creating an album in which we may freely tap into these emotions. You’ve both opened us up through sound. Thank you.
Fred, thank you for changing my life with your incredible music. I found you via a basic CZcams search about 3 months ago, and its been such a great experience being exposed to your artistry. The Tiny Desk Session showed your range as an artist, and this album is the absolute best. Thank you for inspiring me to become a better version of myself and inspiring me to change my mindset.
Just want to say thank you to Brian and Fred for this wonderful album. I have connected with so make people online with this album and I can easily say they are a big part of my life. I use this album to calm down, to meditate, to fall asleep, to remember. It’s powerful in words that i cannot describe. All I can say is thank you! Much Love ❤️ 🫶
No other artist brings me the joy and plays their music from heart like Fred does. Unbelievable! Still can't accept the privilege that is listening to this album!
This album brings me so much peace and joy and the same time. This album came out in a very tough part of my life where I lost a loved one, I couldn’t rest, couldn’t sleep, didn’t eat. Started falling asleep listening to this whole album and I started sleeping so much better and and waking up the next day with more joy and wanting to live every moment of my life. Thank you Fred And Brian for this beautiful masterpiece ❤
To Brian- Your music truly inspires us all. Your music holds a special place in my heart, creating a unique and profound connection. Your innovative soundscapes have been a source of comfort for me throughout the darkest times of my life. Thank you for sharing your incredible gift with the world.
Brian and Fred! Secret Life has played a wondrous calm, relaxing and mediative clutch in my life since its release. A personal lullaby, in the dawning mornings, that has accompanied me on my commute into the city on numerous occasions. Was recently gifted the album, in vinyl format, from a loved one this holiday season and I will look always look forward to revisiting its timelessness as I grow older. Fred's insight about the creative collaborative process was surely refreshing and rather infectious. Will continue to dream about a live performance, as its specialness and uniqueness would be a feat to experience and witness, but please confirm the lyrics for us whenever you have a moment! With nothing but mad love
There is a lot of chatter in my head at all times. Multiple thoughts at once, extreme overstimulation sensitivity... Fred all of your work does this for me, it's why you're my favorite. But Secret Life turns it all off for me. This album is my peace. This artwork is my serenity. Brian, this may fade into the sea of praise you have received throughout your life and it's all deserved so I'm good with that, but you have in many ways saved me from internal torment. with Secret Life, and with your mentorship of Fred, who's other projects have similarly helped me. I can put any part of Secret Life on and by the end of the track I am calm, centered, collected. My thoughts belong to me again. There are no words to describe how incredible that is, and how grateful I am for this gift. Thank you for everything. Love from across the Pond
The perfect night bus soundtrack. When my heads fuzzy, the alcohol is starting to wear off and my surroundings are chaos, putting this on has soundtracked many a night. It brings a sense of calm and serenity to an otherwise jumbled world.
This album is the feeling of escaping the planet, floating in outer space with absolutely nothing to cling to but the memories of life in all its brokenness and beauty. It’s existentially exceptional. ❤ brian fred
Thank you Fred , #musicsaveslifes 🙏🏽 for everyone reading this, have faith in yourself always don’t let the world consume you , we are and always will be…love 🙏🏽
I sat on this album for three days knowing I was going to be taking a flight at sunset - it was so worth it! Beautiful and enveloping. Thanks to you both.
I was definitely not expecting a Brian Eno thing coming from you. This is absolutely amazing and it just showcases how much of a great musician and how big and beautiful your heart is. Thank you for making music and sharing it with us.
I’ve loved Brian since watching The Lovely Bones for the first time and falling for the incredible soundtrack. I’ve loved Fred since day 1 so for these 2 to partner up and create the most beautiful album, it’s made my life. This album is for everyone, for every moment. Driving, working, cooking, crying, beautiful background music for any occasion. Thanks Lads ❤
This album makes me me feel like falling in love AGAIN. Peaceful but exciting, dreamy and meditative, soft yet so powerful. So grateful for this masterpiece🖤
THANKS! This album connects with me emotionally on so many lvls taking the train to work looking at the city, sunrise and sea early in the morning feeling euphoria and HAPPY to feel that im not alone with these emotions. All the songs work perfect together in one solid listening sesh
merci fred , encore une fois je suis toujours amoureuse de ce que tu nous offres I can say ur music changed my life and thk u for that tu as créé ce que j’aime le plus merci ❤️🩹
i was literally thinking a couple days ago that i'd kill to hear you do a downtempo album - your studio sessions and tiny desk have been so sweet. couldn't have had a better person to do it with. thanks so much for all the lovely moments. 💛
It’s hard to verbalise the feelings you get when hear beauty. We can see beautiful artwork or natures wonder and articulate why it is beautiful but it’s harder with music. In my opinion this is a work of sheer beauty. The ability to be swept up in those drones and escorted to a sense of an audiophonic hug with a loveable old friend or humble counsel. Feels like a shoulder you are leaning on, telling you that you are not alone and that life wants you to experience it. Thank you Fred, thank you Brian, you gorgeous wonderful souls.
Very happy again with Fred Again, again. This album bridges two legends of their own era. Brian Eno's work ("1/1" and "Another Green World" are epics). Love it.
When life gets a little overwhelming and I start to feel lost I always chuck my headphones on and listen to this album. It re-grounds me. There is just utter magic within every track that lets you know that it always works out fine. I dunno, it’s just truly therapeutic and beautiful and just bloody lovely! Thank you to the both of you for sharing your talents with the rest of the world and being so incredibly appreciative and humble about it ❤
Splendour turning in magnificent sounds and just like mantras to elevate the whole Planet and its humanhood to the Infinite! Planet Earth vibrates higher with all these luminic galaxial sounds!!!
i've been waiting some songs from your the lot radios and lives, I never would have imagined that Brian would be behind this, it's beautiful, thank both of you, I have no words to describe the peace it gives me.
If the soul is an ocean, than this album feels like a deep sea exploration of the bottom. Sonically exciting and thematically beautiful in a way that can only resonate with the people that are brave enough to go this deep. Thank you for working on this with Fred, Brain
This is probably the single most beautiful album I've ever heard. It's absolutely mesmerizing and loving. Thank you for making every moment of life better Fred
This album is a seriously beautiful work of art. I don't hear music much anymore that touches me as deeply as this one did. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
Brian is one of my favourite instrumentalist musicians ever and Fred has been someone who has come heavily into my rotation and becoming one of my mainstays in what I listen to. A collab album is beyond a dream.
This might be my favourite ever ambient album, and I love ambient music. Incredible work. Just enough emotion in there in to be affecting while still being chill.
I listen to this album nearly every week. It brings so much peace to my mind whenever I feel anxious about something in work or general life. Thank you for creating this Brian & Fred
This is just pure love into my ears trough my headphones as I am drifting into the void of the night trying to convince myself that tomorrow will be a better day !!!
Lost among the debris on the shore, a weathered cassette tape caught my eye, "Secret Life". Intrigued, I inserted it into my Walkman and was transported to a faded world where the sun forever set on a Sunday evening. The faint music, tinged with a gentle melancholy, emotionally evoked the looming arrival of endless Mondays and the loneliness of facing the workweek. As the sun descended below the horizon, I was reminded that even amidst the aimlessness of shadow-stretched shores, there exists a world of value.
I just want to say thank you. It had been a long time since I had cared so much about an artist. Your music is beautiful, inspiring, and it helps me stay true to myself while facing all the challenges life brings. Thank you, Fred.
this feels like its gonna go down into music history... it captures so much of the current global confusion and the peoples longing like also freds previous album actual life...
Я с раннего детства не растерял энтузиазма в поиске музыки, очень много что переслушал и сыграл в своих сэтах.. Но ты, Фрэд, абсолют! Есть ощущение что ты пока единственный на этой планете, истинный проводник музыки.. ❤
This whole album reminds me to slow down and stay grounded. This energy of gratitude that i receive reminds me to be grateful for everything in my life( the good times/ most challenging times). When I first listened to this album it felt as if I was reflecting my whole life, and seen how far I’ve gotten, I got to see the dark times with so much light and love. It brought tears of joy, sadness and peace. Thank you for putting your heart and hard work into this whole album ❤️
I can tell you that this album brought me peace when I had the toughest moments, it gave me power when I thought my life went down. I listen to it everytime I feel disconnected from myself and my feelings, it gives me the most soothing feeling that I don't think I've ever felt so strong before. So, thank you for the good music you guys created, I'm really happy that I get to live this time to listen to the music you bring to the world. Both Fred and Brian are the definition of authentic artists. Love you ❤
Eno is an excellent combination with the music of Fred Again. Just like with David Sylvian. I am completely off this world, it is so beautiful. Very well done.
This album makes me feel calm and relaxed, as if im just drifting into space. Purely just 2 amazing people coming together to make something as beautiful as this album. It would mean a lot if you see this Fred and Brian. Such an amazing album and song lineup. Defo coming back to this one. ❤
Apart from the fact that this album accompanies me every night on my nocturnal journey to dreamland, I have listened to this pure masterpiece along with Brian Eno's 'ambient 2' album and Ludovico Einaudi's art over and over again every time I have been on my 'autumn walk' alone with myself. The perfect trio to let myself escape to a safe place for a while. It's amazing how much emotion listening to this album can evoke. Sitting on a bench, watching leaves falling from the trees and swans swimming on the lake, I felt emptiness and powerlessness, but also peace, as if someone was embracing me with arms full of love. A moment of reflection, an appreciation of the beauty of the surrounding nature and the people in our lives - this album describes feelings that no words can describe. I think I have discovered new levels of my sensitivity lol. Isn't it beautiful that each of us has a 'secret life' to which we can sometimes return?
Hey fellow Ambient 2 enjoyer
a perfect description of what this album does to me. empty, but at peace. glad i'm not the only one :)
Playlist
00:00 I Saw You
4:25 Secret
9:33 Radio
13:14 Follow
15:14 Enough
20:37 Pause
23:00 Safety
25:44 Cmon
31:05 Trying
34:46 Chest
39:41 Come On Home
You’re a true king
there’s no way this guy just dropped a whole album outta nowhere..
thx
Tyvm!
Thanks❤
I want to get to the point in my life where my days sound like this album, peace, calm, harmony, hope, happiness... and I know it will come
Same
The journey is the destination 😉
keep looking for it, and putting those vibes out, and it will come brother
it's already here :)
whenever you read this, in that moment, you are already in the calm and happiness you are hoping for.
Thank you Fred for all the great music these past months.
You’re welcome, Mr. Mozart
High praise from Mozart.
Thank you for your great music Wolfgang!
Where ist Bach? Herr ist commen?
Past months?!
The most underrated thing about this guy is not his music, but the humility and positivity with which he creates his art. There are many people who create beautiful things, but few who can do so while being a good human. It's inspiring.
Absolutely agree. Mankind has lacked humility of late and Fred has reminded us of this … again
I disagree that creativity promotes hubris in and of itself but agree on your point about Fred being a dope cunt.
I agree 💯👍
he is an absolute narsasist
@@adean4146 welcome to the modern world, at least the beats be phat
In life, there are moments that you don't want to end. Not pause but slow it down, savor, observe, and see beauty in every second and every detail. This is what I imagine playing in my head during those moments.
so beautifully captured...thank you. I feel the same.
Thanks Fred! You're something special. I'm a 45 year old guy, ear close to the floor and have never seen anyone with the musicality and talent that you have. You deserve everything my man
40 year old here, he is a breath of fresh air to the music scene. Highly talented. Some people just have that musical flair and he is very special indeed. Hope he plays at Glastonbury soon, he'd be a massive reason to go :)
@@emmawatson9233 He's playing this year ;)
@@tomph3862 Oh gosh! I am not going :( I hope you have the best time!
I'm the same age & was loving the purity of feeling fred puts out there, and then he joins forces with fourtet who is also like that, so modest. Just personally it's amazing going from being a die hard fourtet fan in the early 00s and seeing this sound get sooo popular. It's almost enough to restore ones faith in humanity. 🙏🏼✨🔥🔊🎶
What do you mean by “ear close to the floor”? I’ve never heard that
I have Fred Again playing at my wedding tomorrow (not live obviously). My Fiancee will walk down the Aisle to London Bridge Station. This man has drawn so much emotion from me, from tears to pure elation. What an amazing human he is and it's an absolute pleasure to be around with Fred Again playing through the lugholes. Big up yourself sir.
I hope you have an awesome day dude!
Congrats on your wedding hope your day is amazing!!
hey, that's so cool
wow. congrats!
congratulations… and If you could see yourself in my eyes is a must play bro right?
I feel an enormous sense of gratitude for this man. It brings tears to my eyes when I think about how lucky we are to be alive right now. The Fred again.. era is a special one.
I had to keep blinking to read your comment:) I feel this.
Mee too. I also appreciate how best artists of our times are connecting in a humble and most humane (and fun way) too❤
I was blessed to find Eno in the early 80s like Music for Airports... Super jazzed I found Fred Again last year. Now this!? I'm in new music heaven.
I so agree, discovered Eno in 1979, yeah I’m showing my age & to just discover Fred, ah my soul sings again.
Ok but the first one feels like a crisp summer dawn when the sky is still dark on a side and barely a little bit of the sunlight is visible on the other side, on the dark side you can still see the moon and the stars and on the other side you can see the purple-ish & orange-ish colors coming thru , feels exactly like a breath of fresh air , i'm just woooah , this is amazing, i love it
If you like that vibe, listen to Something in the Orange by Zach Bryan. Technically country, but such a good song and gives those same feelings I think.
🔥🧡💛🤍💛🧡🔥
It's hard to put into words the magic of music. But you did a pretty good job! :)
@@johannjohann6523 Bliss?
Thanks. Love your poetry in motion. Unique.
Everyone is rightly focused on the music, but there is also medicine in reading the comments below. Everyone trying to put their emotions into words, and like myself, probably feeling they are inadequete. He has pulled good people together from all walks of life and all around the world.
You truly know it is good when peeps respond like this ❤
A note for Brian:
- Whenever I take a walk, whether it's rainy, sunny, cold or windy. This piece of art makes calm and happy. Especially the track cmon, it's the most floaty thing I have ever listened to, and will always listen to, whenever I walk.
Thank you Eno & Fred
What a beautiful collaboration between two very important & influential artists from different generations. Super inspiring.
Brian and Fred, I really have to say thanks. I heard this at the moment when I needed it the most. I was waking up, and my sister started playing it. My girlfriend and I ended up in tears because you guys made us feel like we need to appreciate the good things more and that we are truly fortunate. We confirmed with these sounds that your music unites us and sticks us together. Thank you; we (my sister, girlfriend, and I) love you guys. Salute from Colombia.
🙏🏽🦢
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” (E.B Lytton)
Thank you for this
Wonderful said
Fred, this is beyond beautiful, no words can describe.
Rarely music can be heard with soul.
Bless you and your listeners, couldn't of have discovered your work in a better time, it's like a healing spell.
Fred again has always reminded me of Bon Iver by how they both create lonely, gut wrenching atmospheres and use their voices in such unique ways. Just started the album and already know this is gonna be on repeat for me. Thank you Fred, Brian and the legend himself Four Tet!
justin & sean to link up with fred - imagine
listen carefully to "Safety" - distorted samples of Heavenly Father in there :)
Fred only dreams he was as gifted, Fred goes to Brian Eno, 'ambient works by Effects Twin can you do it like that? I'll mash it up James Blake style'
I agree. I got into bon Iver just before I discovered Fred again. I love the singer songwriter producer folks that go in 100% with their ideas. Ben Gibbard from death cab and postal service was my first artist like that. Bonobo makes some great music as well with amazing collabs. Surrounding his usual dj sets with a live bon Iver esque show live with an orchestra and conducting from the center with some headphones.
@@decent.genius they would never big up the KKK or steal their ideas from other artists though.
Ever since it’s release, no matter the weather, the world, the state of my own mind, this album has vibrated through the halls of my home everytime I make my way into my bed. This is the soundtrack to which I breathe, meditate, cry, journal, scream, laugh, question the universe, shout my gratitude into the ether and dream my dreams. This album has held me through heartbreak, loss, illness, heavy life changing “oh my god what the hell am I doing this is crazy but i feel it in my soul” decisions. It’s welcomed new connections into my life, it’s held me on train rides home from having 5 hour conversations that have ripped apart my soul. It’s been the soundtrack to my movie of a life unfolding. The beginning of friendships and love stories that I only dreamed possible. Its the album I play when I’m working with clients, asking them to delve deep into their psyche because I know the soundtrack will keep them safe. That this soundtrack heals. I know every note like it was written into my skin, and I’m forever begging to hear this album from start to finish in an abandoned church somewhere surrounded by candlelight and beautiful people. That would make my life! This is the soundtrack to my life, I’m grateful for every word that’s whispered, every note that is somehow intrinsically linked to part of my soul. To the star sent humans I’m now connected to because of our love for this piece of art. Did you know there’s many of us? All over the world that connected so deeply that we now have a secret lifers secret place where we talk everyday and hold each other through life? In that space there are love stories, friendships, deepest fears and wildest dreams and silliest nights shared. That was born because of this. This album is home. It’s heart. Thank you for bringing it into this world. I’ll be forever grateful. Ayisha x
❤ yes
Escaping via Fred’s music is just pure bliss
We all seek it..and when we find it…it’s magical ✨💚
listening to Secret Life when it was released, i was navigating the loss of a relationship and someone important to me. i remember vividly the emotions that had poured out because of these tracks - pain, anguish, sadness, heartache, endless tears… they allowed me to sit with the heaviness of it all. to feel the weight of my emotions & have a true cathartic release. that these tracks can evoke such feeling is a testament to how beautiful and powerfully healing this album is. Secret Life is a reminder of what it means to be human and to be able to feel so deeply.
i come back to it often as a safe place. as a companion in my travels when things may feel a bit isolated and lonely. for quieter moments amongst the noise and stress of a busy everyday life. as a reminder of how much i have grown since. the beautiful friendships i’ve been able to forge as a result, and ones i find deep comfort in... i listen to Secret Life now with hope. that maybe things will be okay after all :)
this music & this album has meant everything to me… so thank you both.
and thank you, Brian for being the GOAT - not to be confused with a hardy domesticated ruminant animal that has backward curving horns, but rather…the Greatest Of All Time 🙇🏻♀🙏🏻👑❤
much love ❤
Fred, it's Saturday and it's raining. I'm sitting by my window watching the drops crash against the glass while I listen to your album. I feel peace. Thank you for this moment.
it's wednesday, it's raining. As I draw on fragile and beautiful paper, I look at the drops outside my window, being - I think - on the other side of the world from you, in Italy. For a moment I feel the same peace, even if the war - the real war with cities bombed, trenches full of corpses and people killed and tortured in basements - is not far from here.
Thanks Fred and Brian for this album. The whole Secret Life experience the past days has been sooo special to me, an absolutely remarkable time of life to be living in! All topped by the album finally coming out today, which is just so so special. Lots of love to everyone, who was involved in this!
AYO where my discord homies at! ❤️
@@rodak_ 🙋♀️👋🤫
Thank you for creating this incredible piece of art. An entire community, lifelong friendships have been built from listening to Secret Life together. It has changed so many of our lives and brought people together from all around the world in the most magical way. Thank you Fred, thank you Brian ❤
yo the freaking GOAT in here 🎉👑
@@mtrancee yes you are! 🐐♥️
This album makes me wanna cry. No idea why but makes me wanna cry in a happy way. It makes me feel so calme, peaceful, and at ease with everything going on around me. Thank you guys for this❤
well said. I love the intro - it reminds me of the joy I have improvising on the piano. such joy
This is where I go when I need some softness, and a gentle reminder that it's all just a happenin' and we are all riding this beautiful fleeting thing we call life. The thing that gets me the most is that I don't even feel like I have the words to describe how this masterpiece makes me feel. It connects me to that state of flow. That feeling of being fully alive, the messiness, the beauty, it reminds me that we are not alone in the ebbs and flows. And it makes me smile and cry at the same time. I think one of the most poignant things I've discovered is that I've lived abroad most of my adult life, I rarely get home sick because I see 'home' as being wherever I am. Yet when I listen to this album it makes me miss my first home, the people and just being amongst life in the UK. Bottom line is, it makes me feel human, and that I have discovered a whole new spectrum of connecting and feeling, and for that alone I want to thank you both for existing and creating what you do. SOOO much love ❤❤❤
Brian, Fred, Thank you for bringing this into the world. My wife and I find ourselves listen to this album nearly every night as we wind down for bed. I've memorize the coordinates of each beat, or had them gently engrained in me. I hum along when melodies rise out from the ether. I forget I'm listening, and then realize I've been organizing my thoughts of the day into beautiful coves and groves within this sonic landscape. I am grateful to be able to spend these moments dwelling in music that envelopes you at the speed of feeling.
Words cannot express how much this album means to me. I grew up listening to Brian Eno, and now later in my life Fred is my current favorite artist. I have spent the past two years in school for music and graciously under the mentorship of an amazing musician, and there have been many times in my journey that I have thought back to Freds words talking about his relationship with Brian. A mentor-mentee relationship is so so important and rare and a beautiful thing, and this album absolutely represents that. This album came out the final week of my classes with this person, and we were able to share our love for this album together as well as connect to how that relationship sounds so beautiful when put into music. Thank you both for such an incredible piece of art
perfect for my finals that are coming . It is relaxing and helps me to focus. Fred again you have been through my whole med school journey and i am thankful for the joy you brought to my hard times studying . peace
Your music is like a salve for the heart, mind and soul. You helped me find my way out of the dark last year, and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Your music is changing lives for the better, and I just want to say thank you for inspiring me to change mine.
From the center of my being, I thank you for your artistry and for the love you put into your music. You’ve helped me dream and dance again, without fear, with love… with hope. I am grateful. Truly, grateful. Thank you.
bro, you`re so cringe bro. Reading your comment has made this artist cringe for a moment. "salve for the heart" - bro spend more time reading, socialising and not gaming.
This album makes me feel like everything's gonna be okay. Thank you, Fred. Much love.
Hi Brian (and Fred)! It’s wild that this album is almost a year old. You guys gave us such a fun week with the filtered broadcasts leading up to release. It was my second most played album last year and kicked off a season of emotional healing. It’s so hard to pick a favorite on an album like this that’s a no-skips-single-experience kind of thing, but I think my favorite track is safety because I adore the staves x Bon Iver sample. Cheers guys, hope this year is good to you 🌺
Lying on my couch with my new puppy and feeling all kind of emotions listening to this masterpiece. Beautiful stuff ❤️
from the first second of this album, i just started weeping. this is the most sincere and powerful thing i've heard for a really long time.
This is my perfect Sunday morning walking soundtrack. Usually start with Come On Home (what a treat if the accurate lyric was published to it) then keep looping it.
The vinyl edition is wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you to you both! This is now in my arsenal to use to decompress when life gets too overwhelming. I hope you have more of this genre in store. It would be lovely to experience a set like this for a sunrise one day.
2 minutes in and I'd teared up, 8 minutes in and I had a little cry. I'm studying music and wondered if i even wanted to anymore - Fred, you just gave me my love for music back.
I love listening to this when I just need to have some “calm” in my life, whether that be out on a run after a stressful day, or just to help me get to sleep. This makes me feel a certain way that no other piece of music makes me feel, it’s spine tingling and transforming
This album has helped me heal in many ways. To me it has been “the calm after the storm” in various moments, specially on those where I have felt the need to reconnect with myself, accept my thoughts and emotions and truly let myself feel. This isn’t something easy for me but I feel like Fred and Brian’s music creates a safe place in which I feel strong enough to withstand the pain of those raw emotions.
I’d even say it’s like a medicine to me because it always ends up making me practice self compassion and perceiving life with gratitude.
Brian & Fred, listening to this album is the equivalent of tapping into all the hidden and unseen feeling on the entire spectrum of human emotion. Thank you for creating an album in which we may freely tap into these emotions.
You’ve both opened us up through sound. Thank you.
After reading all positive comments
I have come to the conclusion that: Fred is an angel ♥️✨
hes my angel for sure, knew I needed to go see him to cleanse and I'm still crying tears of joy from what I experienced
His music is like a best medicine for our tough times. Keep it up man, world needs you.
Fred, thank you for changing my life with your incredible music. I found you via a basic CZcams search about 3 months ago, and its been such a great experience being exposed to your artistry.
The Tiny Desk Session showed your range as an artist, and this album is the absolute best. Thank you for inspiring me to become a better version of myself and inspiring me to change my mindset.
Just want to say thank you to Brian and Fred for this wonderful album. I have connected with so make people online with this album and I can easily say they are a big part of my life. I use this album to calm down, to meditate, to fall asleep, to remember. It’s powerful in words that i cannot describe. All I can say is thank you! Much Love ❤️ 🫶
No other artist brings me the joy and plays their music from heart like Fred does. Unbelievable! Still can't accept the privilege that is listening to this album!
Ahhh Brian eno the king of ambient… I’m not even surprised your collaborating together… “ ENOUGH” has to be the favourite… big love ❤️
This album brings me so much peace and joy and the same time. This album came out in a very tough part of my life where I lost a loved one, I couldn’t rest, couldn’t sleep, didn’t eat. Started falling asleep listening to this whole album and I started sleeping so much better and and waking up the next day with more joy and wanting to live every moment of my life. Thank you Fred And Brian for this beautiful masterpiece ❤
To Brian- Your music truly inspires us all. Your music holds a special place in my heart, creating a unique and profound connection. Your innovative soundscapes have been a source of comfort for me throughout the darkest times of my life. Thank you for sharing your incredible gift with the world.
Brian and Fred! Secret Life has played a wondrous calm, relaxing and mediative clutch in my life since its release. A personal lullaby, in the dawning mornings, that has accompanied me on my commute into the city on numerous occasions. Was recently gifted the album, in vinyl format, from a loved one this holiday season and I will look always look forward to revisiting its timelessness as I grow older.
Fred's insight about the creative collaborative process was surely refreshing and rather infectious. Will continue to dream about a live performance, as its specialness and uniqueness would be a feat to experience and witness, but please confirm the lyrics for us whenever you have a moment! With nothing but mad love
There is a lot of chatter in my head at all times. Multiple thoughts at once, extreme overstimulation sensitivity... Fred all of your work does this for me, it's why you're my favorite. But Secret Life turns it all off for me. This album is my peace. This artwork is my serenity. Brian, this may fade into the sea of praise you have received throughout your life and it's all deserved so I'm good with that, but you have in many ways saved me from internal torment.
with Secret Life, and with your mentorship of Fred, who's other projects have similarly helped me. I can put any part of Secret Life on and by the end of the track I am calm, centered, collected. My thoughts belong to me again. There are no words to describe how incredible that is, and how grateful I am for this gift. Thank you for everything. Love from across the Pond
The perfect night bus soundtrack. When my heads fuzzy, the alcohol is starting to wear off and my surroundings are chaos, putting this on has soundtracked many a night. It brings a sense of calm and serenity to an otherwise jumbled world.
This album is the feeling of escaping the planet, floating in outer space with absolutely nothing to cling to but the memories of life in all its brokenness and beauty. It’s existentially exceptional. ❤ brian fred
Thank you Fred , #musicsaveslifes 🙏🏽 for everyone reading this, have faith in yourself always don’t let the world consume you , we are and always will be…love 🙏🏽
Got this on vinyl lp..so good..brilliant teamwork with uncle Brian😊✨👌
I sat on this album for three days knowing I was going to be taking a flight at sunset - it was so worth it! Beautiful and enveloping. Thanks to you both.
I was definitely not expecting a Brian Eno thing coming from you. This is absolutely amazing and it just showcases how much of a great musician and how big and beautiful your heart is. Thank you for making music and sharing it with us.
brian eno mentored him when Fred was a technician at abbey road
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@@FretlessTree amazing what having an incredibly wealthy family can do for you... fuck nepotism
@@urmumsbaps was his neighbour
thank you Fred and Brian, really struggling at the moment and this album really cheered me up x
sitting here on a rainy day with my dog and put this album on. feel so calm today. thank you brian and fred
I’ve loved Brian since watching The Lovely Bones for the first time and falling for the incredible soundtrack. I’ve loved Fred since day 1 so for these 2 to partner up and create the most beautiful album, it’s made my life. This album is for everyone, for every moment. Driving, working, cooking, crying, beautiful background music for any occasion. Thanks Lads ❤
If walking home in the morning after long night of partying could be a music - this would be it.
Reminds me a lot of Burial's work! 🔥
This album makes me me feel like falling in love AGAIN. Peaceful but exciting, dreamy and meditative, soft yet so powerful.
So grateful for this masterpiece🖤
THANKS! This album connects with me emotionally on so many lvls taking the train to work looking at the city, sunrise and sea early in the morning feeling euphoria and HAPPY to feel that im not alone with these emotions. All the songs work perfect together in one solid listening sesh
merci fred , encore une fois je suis toujours amoureuse de ce que tu nous offres
I can say ur music changed my life and thk u for that
tu as créé ce que j’aime le plus
merci ❤️🩹
i was literally thinking a couple days ago that i'd kill to hear you do a downtempo album - your studio sessions and tiny desk have been so sweet. couldn't have had a better person to do it with. thanks so much for all the lovely moments. 💛
It’s hard to verbalise the feelings you get when hear beauty. We can see beautiful artwork or natures wonder and articulate why it is beautiful but it’s harder with music. In my opinion this is a work of sheer beauty. The ability to be swept up in those drones and escorted to a sense of an audiophonic hug with a loveable old friend or humble counsel. Feels like a shoulder you are leaning on, telling you that you are not alone and that life wants you to experience it.
Thank you Fred, thank you Brian, you gorgeous wonderful souls.
195th comment!! Your art is amazing Fred. Make the world better with your spirit!!!
Very happy again with Fred Again, again. This album bridges two legends of their own era. Brian Eno's work ("1/1" and "Another Green World" are epics). Love it.
Absolutely beautiful piece/pieces of music and work. An amazing blend of two amazing artists.
When life gets a little overwhelming and I start to feel lost I always chuck my headphones on and listen to this album. It re-grounds me. There is just utter magic within every track that lets you know that it always works out fine. I dunno, it’s just truly therapeutic and beautiful and just bloody lovely!
Thank you to the both of you for sharing your talents with the rest of the world and being so incredibly appreciative and humble about it ❤
Splendour turning in magnificent sounds and just like mantras to elevate the whole Planet and its humanhood to the Infinite! Planet Earth vibrates
higher with all these luminic galaxial sounds!!!
i've been waiting some songs from your the lot radios and lives, I never would have imagined that Brian would be behind this, it's beautiful, thank both of you, I have no words to describe the peace it gives me.
I am so grateful that you put the drones in that you spoke about I wanted to experience that feeling. This is a beautiful album 🫶🏾🐉
If the soul is an ocean, than this album feels like a deep sea exploration of the bottom. Sonically exciting and thematically beautiful in a way that can only resonate with the people that are brave enough to go this deep. Thank you for working on this with Fred, Brain
Sublime. From Start to finish, just beautiful.
This is probably the single most beautiful album I've ever heard. It's absolutely mesmerizing and loving. Thank you for making every moment of life better Fred
so true.
This album is a seriously beautiful work of art. I don't hear music much anymore that touches me as deeply as this one did. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
What a beautiful collection of songs,..,
We will be pushing your songs in our playlist as well.
Thanks again for all the inspiration!👧💛
That's the music of heaven, so pure
This album is a journey... and a beautiful one at that
Listening to this in HK.
Sat on the balcony on the 21st floor looking towards the sea.
Vibes!
God bless 🙏🏻
Hauntingly and beautifully soothing😮..!!! God 🙏🙏🙏 bless you.. Thank you 💗!!!!!
Brian is one of my favourite instrumentalist musicians ever and Fred has been someone who has come heavily into my rotation and becoming one of my mainstays in what I listen to. A collab album is beyond a dream.
Fred, you are my Elvis ... your music is very deep and emotional at top levels. Thank you for your performances.
This might be my favourite ever ambient album, and I love ambient music. Incredible work. Just enough emotion in there in to be affecting while still being chill.
Mais qu'est ce que c'est cette Merveille??!J'ai les tripes en l'air.Merci merci pour cette beauté dans ce non sens qui vient en mettre un peu...
What a lovely vibe this whole album has. I really dig the slower and mellow tone it has.
This is beyond amazing! Thank U Fred and Brian Eno, for work together and bring such a masterpiece!!!
You're such a bright star in a world of darkness. Shine on
I listen to this album nearly every week. It brings so much peace to my mind whenever I feel anxious about something in work or general life. Thank you for creating this Brian & Fred
Thank you for bringing magic to us. Thank you for being you, Fred.
This is just pure love into my ears trough my headphones as I am drifting into the void of the night trying to convince myself that tomorrow will be a better day !!!
Lost among the debris on the shore, a weathered cassette tape caught my eye, "Secret Life". Intrigued, I inserted it into my Walkman and was transported to a faded world where the sun forever set on a Sunday evening. The faint music, tinged with a gentle melancholy, emotionally evoked the looming arrival of endless Mondays and the loneliness of facing the workweek. As the sun descended below the horizon, I was reminded that even amidst the aimlessness of shadow-stretched shores, there exists a world of value.
I just want to say thank you. It had been a long time since I had cared so much about an artist. Your music is beautiful, inspiring, and it helps me stay true to myself while facing all the challenges life brings. Thank you, Fred.
this feels like its gonna go down into music history... it captures so much of the current global confusion and the peoples longing like also freds previous album actual life...
Я с раннего детства не растерял энтузиазма в поиске музыки, очень много что переслушал и сыграл в своих сэтах..
Но ты, Фрэд, абсолют!
Есть ощущение что ты пока единственный на этой планете, истинный проводник музыки..
❤
Предыдущие альбомы да. Но тут набор звуков. Тут нет мелодии, это херня
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This whole album reminds me to slow down and stay grounded. This energy of gratitude that i receive reminds me to be grateful for everything in my life( the good times/ most challenging times).
When I first listened to this album it felt as if I was reflecting my whole life, and seen how far I’ve gotten, I got to see the dark times with so much light and love. It brought tears of joy, sadness and peace. Thank you for putting your heart and hard work into this whole album ❤️
I can tell you that this album brought me peace when I had the toughest moments, it gave me power when I thought my life went down. I listen to it everytime I feel disconnected from myself and my feelings, it gives me the most soothing feeling that I don't think I've ever felt so strong before. So, thank you for the good music you guys created, I'm really happy that I get to live this time to listen to the music you bring to the world. Both Fred and Brian are the definition of authentic artists. Love you ❤
Eno is an excellent combination with the music of Fred Again. Just like with David Sylvian. I am completely off this world, it is so beautiful. Very well done.
El álbum más bonito del 2023 como dijo Four tet, gracias Fred, Brian and friends, por producir esta joya, saludos desde Chile
This album makes me feel calm and relaxed, as if im just drifting into space. Purely just 2 amazing people coming together to make something as beautiful as this album. It would mean a lot if you see this Fred and Brian. Such an amazing album and song lineup. Defo coming back to this one. ❤