Listen to Brian Eno's new cover of the Velvet Underground

Today, Brian Eno released his reimagination of the Velvet Underground's track "I'm Set Free." The cover, titled Fickle Sun (iii) Im Set Free, is from Eno's new album The Ship, coming April 29. Below, the Velvet's original version of the song, from their third album The Velvet Underground (1969).

Eno says:

The first time I ever heard [The Velvet Underground] was on a John Peel radio show it was when their first album came out and I thought This I like! This I want to know about!. I was having a huge crisis at the time. Am I going to be a painter or am I somehow going to get into music. And I couldnt play anything so music was the less obvious choice. Then, when I heard The Velvet Underground I thought, you can do both actually. It was a big moment for me.

That particular song always resonated with me but it took about 25 years before I thought about the lyrics. Im set free, to find a new illusion. Wow. Thats saying we dont go from an illusion to reality (the western idea of Finding The Truth) but rather we go from one workable solution to another more workable solution.

Subsequently I think we arent able and actually dont particularly care about the truth, whatever that might be. What we care about is having intellectual tools and inventions that work. [Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens] discusses that what makes large-scale human societies capable of cohering and co-operating is the stories they share together. Democracy is a story, religion is a story, money is a story. This chimed well with Im set free to find a new illusion. It seems to me what we dont need now is people that come out waving their hands and claiming they know the Right Way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfzoyDOXfzY