Editing Before and After Science (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Before and After Science
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Brian Eno]]
| cover      = Beforeandafterscience.jpg
| alt        = A picture of the album cover depicting a white border with a stark black and white image of the side profile of Brian Eno's face. In the top right corner is Brian Eno's name. In the bottom right corner the album's title is written.
| released   = {{Start date|df=yes|1977|12}}
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Basing Street Studios|Basing Street]], London; [[Conny Plank|Conny's Studio]], [[Cologne]]<ref name="albumNotes">{{cite AV media notes|title=Before and After Science|others=[[Brian Eno]]|publisher=[[Island Records]]|year=1977|id=ILPS-9478|type=Vinyl back cover}}</ref>
| genre      = {{flat list|
*[[Art rock]]{{sfn|Seabrook|2008|p=160}}
*{{nowrap|[[art pop]]}}<ref name="ArtPop" />
* [[avant-pop]]<ref>{{cite magazine|last=O'Brien|first=Glenn|author-link=Glenn O'Brien|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/new-again-brian-eno|title=New Again: Brian Eno|magazine=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|location=New York|date=22 November 2016|access-date=16 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[experimental pop]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Pickard|first=Joshua|url=http://nooga.com/171254/record-bin-the-experimental-pop-lucidity-of-brian-enos-before-and-after-science/|title=Record Bin: The experimental pop lucidity of Brian Eno's "Before and After Science"|publisher=Nooga.com|date=10 October 2015|access-date=1 June 2016|archive-date=6 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006061539/http://nooga.com/171254/record-bin-the-experimental-pop-lucidity-of-brian-enos-before-and-after-science/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| length     = 39:30
| label      = [[Island Records|Island]], [[Polydor Records|Polydor]]
| producer   = Brian Eno, [[Rhett Davies]]
| prev_title = [[Cluster & Eno]]
| prev_year  = 1977
| next_title = [[Ambient 1: Music for Airports]]
| next_year  = 1978
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Before and After Science
 | type        = album
 | single1     = [[King's Lead Hat]]
 | single1date = January 1978
}}
}}

'''''Before and After Science''''' is the fifth solo [[studio album]] by English musician [[Brian Eno]], originally released by [[Polydor Records]] in December 1977 in the United Kingdom and by [[Island Records|Island U.S.]] soon after. Produced by Eno and [[Rhett Davies]], it is the first of Eno's [[popular music]] works to be published under his full name (unlike all recordings that preceded the record and ''[[Discreet Music]]'', where he was [[mononym]]ously credited as "''Eno''").

Musicians from the United Kingdom and Germany had notably collaborated on the album, including [[Robert Wyatt]], [[Fred Frith]], [[Phil Manzanera]], [[Paul Rudolph (musician)|Paul Rudolph]], [[Andy Fraser]], [[Dave Mattacks]], [[Jaki Liebezeit]], [[Dieter Moebius]], and [[Hans-Joachim Roedelius]]. Over one hundred tracks were written but only ten made the album's final cut. The musical styles range from energetic and jagged to languid and pastoral.

The album marks Eno's last foray into rock music as a solo artist in the 1970s, nearly all of his following work showcasing [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]] and [[ambient music]], which was hinted at predominantly on the second side of ''Before and After Science''. It was Eno's second to chart in the United States. The song "[[King's Lead Hat]]" (the title of which is an anagram for [[Talking Heads]], for whom Eno would later produce three albums) was remixed and released as a single, although it did not chart in the United Kingdom. Critical response to the album has remained positive, with several critics calling it one of Eno's best works.