An exquisite experiment, Apollo takes Brian Eno's spacescapes from albums like Another Green World and arranges them with some heavenly pedal steel guitar by Daniel Lanois. The recording engulfs the listener and captures the feel of space travel, weightlessness, and other sensations vividly. It's also perhaps Eno's warmest record ever. In the end, it comes off sounding not unlike a Grateful Dead experiment, with Lanois' lazy pedal steel sounding quite similar to Jerry Garcia's playing on David Crosby's "Laughing." An excellent nighttime vehicle. ~ Matthew Greenwald, All Music Guide
I bought this in 1989 and have loved it ever since. I regret that I have never seen the movie it was made for, but I hope to do that one of these days. I think Deep Blue Day is an oddity - so staunchly rythmical and conspicuously structured, so sweetened and pretty! I think it provides light-weight relief for the rest of the album. Apollo has haunted my subconcious for 20 years now and is as magical as the first day I listened to it.