Brian Eno - Music for Airports

I'm not really sure how I feel about this album. There are times I can recall listening to it and thinking "This is it? The whole song is 15 minutes of the same simple loop?" In fact when I first got hold of it I tried very hard to sit through the whole thing but simply couldn't. There have also been occurrences however, when I'm focusing on something else, where I've put on the album and quite enjoyed it. It's the very definition of ambient in the way that you can feel it almost sink into your consciousness and become a sort of meditative white noise. However it is so terribly repetitive I find it nearly impossible to just sit down and listen to it without having something else to do. The album only has about four different samples, never using more than two in any one song. One thing that must be considered is the fact that this album came out in 1978. In this time there wasn't much to draw on besides composers of the Impressionist movement such as John Cage. It can be said without a doubt the Eno was a pioneer in this widely unexplored genre. In fact he was the first to use the label "ambient music" in the liner notes of this album.

As a whole I would say I respect this album, though I can't say I always enjoy listening to it. It's most certainly an inspiration for many ambient artists today and can in fact be attributed to popularizing the movement.

7/10