Overview
The album shows a wider variety of moods and sounds than the group's first album, Kollaps. Einstürzende Neubauten is famous for banging, scraping, plucking, or otherwise wringing sounds from any resonant object. While such metallic clatter pervades the album, the group also uses techniques such as found sounds (telephone conversations, the Hamburg fish market) and (pre-digital) sampling (a sample of an Armenian song, "Toun en kelkhen imastoun yes," is used in "Armenia"). Bass guitar is relatively prominent, though generally played in a minimal style (and perhaps contributing more toward sonic texture rather than forming a rhythmic or harmonic foundation). Trouser Press critic David Sheridan pointed out the group's drifting towards conventionality, writing, "the title track even has a chord progression!" (his emphasis).
"Armenia" was later used in the soundtrack of Michael Mann's 1995 film Heat and his 1999 film The Insider.
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