"Station to Station" was a milestone in Bowie's transition to his late 1970s 'Berlin Trilogy'. Bowie himself has said of the album, "As far as the music goes, "Low" and its siblings were a direct follow-on from the title track", while Brian Eno opined that "Low" was "very much a continuation from "Station to Station"". It has also been described as "enormously influential on post-punk". Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray wrote in 1981, "If "Low" was Gary Numan's Bowie album, then "Station to Station" was Magazine's." However, "Stylus" declared in 2004 that "just as few had anticipated Bowie's approach, few copied it ... for the most part this is an orphaned, abandoned style". Rob Sheffield deemed it a "space rock masterpiece" in "The Rolling Stone Album Guide" (2004), writing that Bowie had recorded "the most intense music of his life". Jem Aswad of NPR described the album as "pioneering ice-funk" that "paved the way not only for thousands of artists who were influenced by it, but also for the brilliant wave of experimentation that followed over the next five years: "Low", "Heroes", "Lodger" and "Scary Monsters"."