Before & After Science (1989) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Before & After Science a score of 3.9100 out of 4

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All Music Guide

Before and After Scienceis really a study of "studio composition" whereby recordings are created by deconstruction and elimination: tracks are recorded and assembled in layers, then selectively subtracted one after another, resulting in a composition Read more about Before & After Science on All Music Guide

Rolling Stone

Before and After Scienceis being touted as Brian Eno's most commercial album, and with some reason: it's a graceful, seductively melodic work, and side one even kicks off with a neat little disco riff. But this view also confuses the issue. Read more about Before & After Science on Rolling Stone

PopMatters

Brian Eno, I no longer fear thee. As I stare at your picture on the cover of Before and after Science , I understand now that you are a man who makes songs. Some of which are upbeat rock numbers. Some are moody and achingly beautiful. Others are obtuse. I know all of this. Read more about Before & After Science on PopMatters

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This album, along with Peter Gabriel III , changed my music-listening life. Before purchasing and assimilating these albums (on George Starostin's glowing recommendations), my music pallete was still almost exclusively limited to 60's and
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Before & After Science

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