Re-released and re-packed, Nerve Net, is perhaps Eno’s most unique album, often containing relentless, almost aggressive musical surges, which envelope themselves in busy rhythms, mechanical drum loops and spacey, gloomy soundtrack auras.

Highlights are many, as Nerve Net opens with the magnificent Fractal Zoom, where a bucanneering beat plays host to great big analogue synth sweeps and enigmatic choral vocals. Pure, starry-eyed soundtrack music, but perfect for home listening too. Meanwhile, the jazzy, electronic seediness of Pierre In Mist is a wonderfully off-key masterpiece – and a lovely example of Eno’s extrovert charm. The dark, punch drunk sounds that inhabit the other-wordly My Squelchy Life are also a real treat.

Nerve Net is also one of the few Eno albums to contain a considerable amount of vocals, for example Ali Click, where Eno amusingly ‘raps’ over rumbling rhythms punctuated by delightfully funky rhythm guitar bursts and amazonian samples in a compulsive melting pot of glistening, jazzy electronica.

Eno certainly kept his ear close to the ground on this release, realising many dance music elements throughout his rigid, thickly structured, but fluid, songwriting frames, although Robert Fripp’s inescapably familiar guitar style somewhat backdates the album. Fripp’s work is either loved or loathed, and if you’re not a fan of his perpendicular guitar brawls, his session work can frequently irritate.

However, Nerve Net is unmistakenly an Eno album, it has his considered style stamped all over it, occasionally compulsive, and occasionally goofy too, its textures and colours are not typical Eno, yet his talent remains inescapable.