 Eno considers the album " [ S ] <unk> that combines something very human and fallible and personal , with something very electronic and mathematical sometimes . " And they tried to " make that picture of the human still trying to survive in an increasingly complicated digital world ... It 's quite easy to make just digital music and it 's quite easy to make just human music , but to try and make a combination is sort of , exciting , I think . " Byrne considered his job as lyricist to " bring more humanity " to Eno 's instrumentals , which can be " cold and academic . " 
