Best reissue ever? This 1973 collaboration between musical innovator Brian Eno and prog-head Robert Fripp offers a cerebral, frighteningly consuming glimpse at one of rock’s earliest steps toward ambient music. (No Pussyfooting), however, is certainly not ambient, as Fripp’s trippy, processed guitar wails and weeps and cycles atop Eno’s humming tape loops. 

Here is the reissue’s selling point: Originally, the record–released the same year as Eno’s pop classic Here Come the Warm Jets–was just two lengthy songs: “The Heavenly Music Corporation” and “Swastika Girls.” But the expanded remastered edition adds new goodies, including reversed versions (as in, the song is played backwards…yeah) of both tracks and “Heavenly Music” played at half speed. Ambient rock gets chopped and screwed? You’re damn right. Given that an aim of these compositions is sustained patience, the remix method seems appropriate. The fact that occasionally such a chill temperament is thrashed and wound tight with brain-frying tension makes it an even more intriguing experiment. The new double-CD version is available now.