"Charm (Over 'Burundi Cloud')", which took up the whole second side of the original LP release, is based on some of the longer pieces of Hassell's 1977 album "Vernal Equinox" (1 Archived 22 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine).

[citation needed] Eno took what he learned from making this album and put it to use in his collaboration with David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

Hassell apparently considered that album too "commercial", and castigated Eno in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine for his methods and "lack of musical pedigree".

[4] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau ranked it sixth on his year-end list for the Pazz & Jop poll.

[7] Clyde Macfarlane from The Quietus was even more impressed, writing that the album's five "brilliant" recordings channel "some deep psychological urges", "breathe excitement, and are underlined by a heart-pumping, stick-whacking, distinctly human pulse.