Specialists in English, media, film and television have also been invited to take part in this conversation, which feels authentic to the spirit of Eno ... The book mulls over those necessary questions that anyone thinking about Eno must eventually face.

The Wire

Contributions include meticulous descriptions of compositions; a chapter about Eno's ambient oeuvre (which quirkily compares him to Tolkien at great length) ... Albiez contributes to the best piece on precursors to Eno's use of the studio to create new sounds. ... Intellectually stimulating.

Record Collector

The collection's standouts are Martin James' pithy, pacy account of Eno's years in New York (1978-84) … and Hillegonda Rietveld's coolly attentive reading of the soundtrack to the film The Lovely Bones, in which his “oblique music seems like a ghostly call from the 'in-between'”.

Times Higher Education

For quite some time, Brian Eno has been jokingly referred to as the 'professor of pop'. It's about time, then, that real academics caught up with a body of work that is as perplexing as it is complex. ... Essential reading for all academic listeners.

Times Higher Education ('What are you reading?')

This much needed book explores the many trajectories of Eno's varied career, and it will engage and excite any music lover, regardless of your opinion of Eno's work. It's a richly rewarding collection that deftly explores and unpacks the work of one of popular music's pioneering figures. ... Oblique Music does an outstanding job of critically capturing both the well-known and less familiar elements of Eno's work ... [It] provides some thought-provoking material on broader issues such as collaboration, composition, creativity, experimentation, musicianship, technology and more, and as such will stimulate the interest of anyone engaged in music creation and production. This is a book that you will return to time and again - like Eno's best work, its rewards make themselves most evident after repeated visits.

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

Meticulously written, rich in detail and factually argued ... Anyone who wants to know Eno from the beginning, to understand his experimental strategies in the studio or to study his eternal movement between pop music and free sound, will not be disappointed.

Groove (Bloomsbury translation)