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.