David Byrne / Brian Eno My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

"The sampled speech from various, mainly religious, sources ties the album into a long and prestigious history of artists who used found sound, which David Toop capably outlines in the liner notes."

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

"David Byrne and Brian Eno pile up riffs and cross-rhythms to build drama, yet they keep the cuts uncluttered and mysterious."

David Byrne and Brian Eno My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

"Whereas oftentimes My Life in the Bush of Ghosts has been described as 'influential,' I think a better term would be prescient."

Brian Eno & David Byrne My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Review

"Its influence remains simply enormous: echoes of this record can be heard throughout modern music, from the obvious sound collages of Public Enemy and DJ Shadow to, even, the clever and dense production references of pop acts such as Girls Aloud."

Unspun Heroes - Brian Eno and David Byrne, ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’

"They took a love for funk, Afrobeat and post punk and combined it with emergent sampling technology to create a fully realised sound that was at once very tribal and very futuristic."

Brian Eno/David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

"Like the offspring of two Mensa members, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts has always carried around its musical pedigree like an SAT score in the ninety-eighth percentile."

Reissue of the month: Brian Eno and David Byrne, My Life In the Bush of Ghosts

"This collaboration is perhaps the best of what he achieved during that intense, exciting period when the can-do aesthetic of punk combined with emerging technologies to enable the creation of a new kind of music."