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"Arriving in each new city, the traveller encounters something of his past, the possession of which he had no longer been aware: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer own is expecting you on the threshold of new locations." Italo Calvino.
They've taken their time. Following "Silence Is Sexy", their "Strategies Against Architecture III" anthology, the "Berlin Babylon" soundtrack, and the live cut "Brussels 9-15-2000", "Perpetuum Mobile", Einstürzende Neubauten's long-awaited new studio album, has arrived at last. Time brings about changes – and since their foundation, Einstürzende Neubauten have, like no other band, reflected these major and minor, public and private vicissitudes. They have been exemplary in reinventing themselves with every new album – while remaining faithful to themselves, especially in their constant metamorphosis. "Perpetuum Mobile" expands the range of their music, enriching it with new facets: like in the radicalism with which melancholia, wafted through with farewells, is portrayed here. Or the long, almost epic narratives that rigorously take all the time they need to develop their perfect dramaturgy. Alongside these, we find subtle sonic images, whose intensity develops out of reduction, or songs that breathe a fragile beauty ("Paradiesseits") and deeply felt mourning ("Dead Friends (around the corner)"). But Einstürzende Neubauten also immediately continue their search for that unexpected new sound – with new installations (see "Boreas") or surprising instrumentations consisting of wind players, tubes, pedal steel guitars, the clavichord, bird calls, and air compressors. But the game with "foreign" sounds is no end in itself, no pure exploration of materials, but a means of painting seductively disconcerting sound landscapes in which lyrics, rhythm and sound come together to form a unified entirety. Just like the whole album, which develops a manifest logic in view of these many surprising aspects – right down to the final track, "Grundstück".
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Anita Lane sings on the song 'Blume', which is on the album 'Tabula Rasa'.
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