Eno offers awesome ambience

For those who aren't familiar with Brian Eno, allow me to enlighten you. He's been the keyboard player and engineer of Roxy Music, a producer extraordinaire, the inventor of techno and ambient music as we know it and one of the most influential artists in modern music history. His first four solo LPs, Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World and Before and After Science have recently been reissued and remastered, hoping to usher in a new generation of Enophiles.\nAnother Green World (1975) is typically cited as Eno's finest work, and for good reason. Rarely has a record been so spatially experimental yet so engaging and entrancing at the same time. Eno has always proclaimed himself a "non-musician," but here he makes what most others would let slip into the background become full foreground music that is simultaneously haunting and dreamlike. There are a few pop-oriented tracks here, but they function as bridges between the artful musings of the instrumental tracks. Eno's synth and piano, guitar work by Robert Fripp of King Crimson and percussion by Phil Collins mesh together in waves, making Another Green World a perfect tripped-out headphone record.\nU2, Radiohead and Coldplay owe Eno a huge debt for helping shape and mold their sound on a totally subconscious level, and you can practically hear the entire soft side of Nine Inch Nails' career during the three minutes of "The Big Ship." Producing monumental records by David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads and U2, among many others, as well as a brilliant glut of solo work, without Eno's influence on popular music, we very well might be stuck in the '70s. Another Green World is the perfect introduction to the man's legacy.