EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - RAMPEN (APM: ALIEN POP MUSIC) (2LP)

Rampen - apm: alien pop music is pop music for parallel universes and in-between worlds - for hyperspaces and interzones. It is microcosmic and intergalactic at the same time. It's a demi-sophisticated claim outside of all physical laws, with which the Einstürzende Neubauten enter a stylistic no man's land between the past and future. There's a return to the roots on one side, while a new art form emerges on the other from powerful eruptions of noise encountering cryptic, often fragmentary lyrics: Popular music for aliens and outcasts. Anti- pop has become alien pop. Outlandish. Spun like a cocoon. Unheard. Sonus inauditus. Not unintentionally, the reduced artwork on the cover is reminiscent of the iconic layout on the Beatles' White Album. "It's based on the idea that the Einstürzende Neubauten are just as famous in another solar system as the Beatles are in our world," Blixa Bargeld said, remarking on the balancing act between avant-garde and tongue-in-cheek, provocation and pop-cultural discontinuity.