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01. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Sabrina
02. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Silence Is Sexy
03. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - In Circles
04. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Newtons Gravitätlichkeit
05. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Zampano
06. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Heaven Is Of Honey
07. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Beauty
08. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Die Befindlichkeit Des Landes
09. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Sonnenbarke
10. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Musentango
11. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Alles
12. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Redukt
13. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Dingsaller
14. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Anrufe In Abwesenheit
ARTIST
TITLE
Silence Is Sexy
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
POTOMAK 957052 POTOMAK 957052
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/5/2011

2018 repress. Reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten's Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000 from singer Blixa Bargeld and his band partners (N.U. Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Jochen Arbeit and Rudolf Moser). A concept of "conceptlessness" was created at that time from a spontaneous idea (many thought it was an April Fool's joke when Einstürzende Neubauten first stood on the stage at Berlin's "Moon" on April 1, 1980; now over 30 years ago), from which the "brilliant dilettantes" developed their own strategy against social and musical architecture using metal pipes, feathers and machines. Blixa Bargeld constructed metaphor-laden poetry around which unique worlds of sound were built up from objects of the most varied origins. The band discovered sounds beyond the pain barrier, the beauty of dissonance and the aesthetics of the scrapyard. They are regarded as the most important engines in the development of new musical strategies. Hardly another German band has characterized the musical landscape as lastingly as Einstürzende Neubauten. Their influence on the music world was and is as great as their timeless character. Silence Is Sexy finally receives a long-awaited reissue on the band's own label Potomak. The element of surprise was and continues to be routine for Einstürzende Neubauten. On Silence Is Sexy they masterfully celebrate the unexpected in the exploration of silence. It is a wonderful album in the classical Neubauten sense; lyrical and melancholy. It's a musical coming-of-age from metal-defying scrap iron sound to constructed melodiousness, with a familiar rhythmic undertow -- playful, arrogant, poetic, subversive, dandified and mature. From its first release in 2000 (marking the 20-year existence of the band) to date, it has doubtlessly remained the group's most complex work and the most fascinating in its evolution. It shows the Neubauten universe from both a known, emotionally moving side, as well as one that is deliberately constructive. It clearly breathes the inimitably rough Neubauten handwriting, while Blixa's voice cuts through intellectual and cryptic texts. It is carried by metal sounds, from which individual instruments can almost no longer be extracted -- and by silence. Ultimately, nearly inaudible tones or laughter in the right place can seem more destructive than the most enduring rage. This is an album that won't be ignored; a unique appearance in the history of German rock music.