AllMusic described "Evening Star" as "a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno's then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in "(No Pussyfooting)"". The first three tracks are serene, gentle tape-looped guitar textures performed by Fripp and accented with treatments, synthesizer and piano by Eno. Track four, "Wind on Wind", is a short excerpt from Eno's solo project "Discreet Music", released a week after "Evening Star". It is not an exact duplication from that release, being mixed slightly differently. Eno had originally intended Fripp to use the material which became "Discreet Music" as a backing tape to play over in improvised live performances.