EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - ALLES IN ALLEM
After more than 12 years, Einstürzende Neubauten's long-awaited new
studio album ALLES IN ALLEM is finally going to be released. The album
marks the quintessence of the band's output, opening yet another
unexpected door in 40 years of ongoing sound research by a very
experimental group of musicians around Blixa Bargeld. This band, like
nearly no other, has managed to create a musical cosmos. It has, in fact,
built up its own genre by uniquely combining edgy sound with
sophisticated poetry. Appropriately, in the Year of the Rat - the symbol
of ingenuity and versatility according to the Chinese zodiac - the band is
not resting on the laurels of its last four decades. Instead, it curiously
continues to explore everything that the sound universe has to yield,
with one eye on the future and with boundless playfulness The unique
sound and textual landscapes of the band, founded in 1980 in Berlin,
reveal the timelessness that Blixa Bargeld, N. U. Unruh, Alexander
Hacke, Jochen Arbeit and Rudolph Moser have continuously maintained.
And yet, through experimental approaches to songwriting, instruments
developed over four decades and collective input, the band sounds
remarkably cutting edge within its own time. In fact, through its
individual brand of music the Einstürzende Neubauten seem to always
command each and every manifestation of the here and now - whether
industrial in its early years, the driving beats of the 1990s or its more
considered later work. The verse "Wir hatten tausend Ideen / Und alle
waren gut" (We had a thousand ideas / And all of them were good) from
albumtrack "Am Landwehrkanal" could easily be perceived as the band's
description of itself. The sum total is a special compilation: ALLES IN
ALLEM, Einstürzende Neubauten's first regular studio album in 12 years,
presents an incomparable band that defies categorization to create a
genre all its own.
TRACKLISTING: 01. TEN GRAND GOLDIE (00519) 02. AM
LANDWEHRKANAL (00300) 03. MÖBLIERTES LIED (00428)
04. ZIVILISATORISCHES MISSGESCHICK (00358) 05. TASCHEN (00438)
06. SEVEN SCREWS (00353) 07. ALLES IN ALLEM (00415) 08. Gys.
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