Monday, November 29 2010
Einstürzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture IV
The tale of an uninitiated music reviewer traveling through a world of foreign sonority and coming out potentially scarred for life, and better for it.
Thursday, December 20 2007
Einstürzende Neubauten: Alles Wieder Offen
The picture we see in 2007 is of a band in complete control of their faculties, to the point where even the seemingly chaotic force of violently exploding sheet metal has been domesticated.
Monday, April 16 2007
Einsturzende Neubauten: Palast Der Republik [DVD]
The creation of their music is oftentimes as visually stimulating as it is adventurous, and the well-lit and clear-eyed presentation on this DVD gives the audience a perfect vantage with which to see every percussive stroke of genius.
Tuesday, July 26 2005
Einsturzende Neubauten: 1/2 Mensch [DVD]
Of course, there is always something perpetually upsetting about seeing an animated fetus moving through an inky-black universe of German screams and scraping metal.
Thursday, August 5 2004
Einstürzende Neubauten: Kalte Sterne: Early Recordings
Einstürzende Neubauten are a force of nature, or, um, a force of industry. The band originated in Berlin as part of Die Geniale Dilletante, an arts collective inspired by the Dadaist arts movement that had reached its boundary-pushing apex in the early years of the second world war.
Tuesday, April 13 2004
Einstürzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile
Perpetuum Mobile follows on the heels of a long tradition of German industrial music from the early days of Kraftwerk all the way to the genre’s more recent hard-core incarnation à la Rammstein.
Monday, October 22 2001
Einstürzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture III: 1991-2001
Berlin’s Einstürzende Neubauten—that’s “Collapsing New Buildings” to the uninitiated—are in many ways an embodiment of a certain stereotype about German art rock.
Monday, June 19 2000
Einstürzende Neubauten: Silence Is Sexy
Many bands attempt to defy or destroy the established musical boundaries. Few succeed, and fewer still do so with the fervor and style of Einstürzende Neubauten.
