Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen

As Neubauten’s sound and creative approach has diversified and been refined over the years, so it’s no longer possible to pin them down with standard definitions of all things industrial, experimental or avant-garde. Now amazingly in their 27th year, they operate completely outside of the mechanisms of the regular music industry and are making some of the most extraordinary music of their career. With their singularity of vision and purpose, you could say Neubauten have long since become their own sub-genre.  Between 2004’s Perpetuum Mobile, the last album to be given a conventional release, and the arrival of Alles Wieder Offen (Everything’s Open Again), Neubauten have released no less than 10 albums as part of their online Musterhaus series. Financed by their groundbreaking online supporter network, Alles Wieder Offen, with its subtle blends of electronica, ambient and atmospherics, vividly demonstrates just how far Neubauten have travelled and how much more sophisticated their operations have become since their confrontational proto-industrial approach of the early 80s. In 2007, Neubauten are as completely wide open as the album title implies.