Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles In Allem

A quintessential musical cosmos from the masters of sonic exploration.

"We had thousands of ideas / And they were all good." This line from the track "Am Landwehrkanal" perfectly captures the spirit of Alles In Allem, the first proper studio statement from Einstürzende Neubauten in over a decade. Released as the band celebrated 40 years of continuous deconstruction and rebirth, this album marks another unexpected door opening in their high-contrast career. Gathered around the legendary figure of Blixa Bargeld, the group has succeeded in creating their own genre—a "hand-crafted" fusion of cutting-edge industrial sound and highly sophisticated poetics.

Appropriately arriving in the Year of the Rat—a symbol of ingenuity and versatility—Alles In Allem proves the band isn't resting on the laurels of the past four decades. Instead, they continue to curiously explore the frontiers of the sonic universe with an eye toward the future. The record is an incomparable document of a band that defies categorization, balancing percussive, metallic grit with a boundless, "celestial" musicality that only Neubauten could summon.