Neubauten's "Perpetuum Mobile"

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Has anyone heard this? Is this the same record as their "Supporter Album #1" (which I previewed online and found rather tepid)? How does it stack up against their other releases?

I'm assuming it's a continuation of the quieter and more melodic drift of their evolution, so it's not as if I'm expecting chapter two of "Kollaps". Thanks.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like it might be the same thing as there's something on their site which lists "Perpetuum Mobile" as a track on "Supporter Album #1". I'm holding out hope on this one again...wasn't a huge fan of Silence is Sexy but I do generally like them in their quiet phase too.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

It's pretty good. I haven't listened to it enough yet to decide whether it's better than Silence Is Sexy (which, aside from the title track, I liked quite a bit), but it's definitely on a plane with that album. Similarly quiet and controlled, and very beautiful in parts. Don't know that I'd like to see them play it live - the SIS tour was pretty goddamned boring. But it's a good headphone album.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0403/dayal.php

― chuck, Monday, 26 January 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Geeta is my new short duration personal saviour.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone think Neubauten is the U2 its okay to like? i.e. Beginning by apdapting Go4,PIL to fit sound of yr home town (Thin Lizzy/Stockhausen)+ Cold War angst + gradual refinement leading to 90s post-Berlin Wall reinvention w/ one going relatively more experimental while the other became more conventional. (I do like them, btw)

― fcussen (Burger), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone think Neubauten is the U2 its okay to like?

i hope not

― tricky disco (disco stu), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The show I saw on the Silence is Sexy tour was awesome! I saw them play in Boston. Stone Temple Pilots were playing at the club next door, and you could hear them through the (very thin) walls! This angered Blixa a lot, and he said "Ja, I hear there are some...Pilots playing next door? We will DROWN THEM OUT WITH OUR NOISE!!' So it was a pretty goddamn ferocious show. If the band could still hear the 'Pilots next door', they would ramp up how loud they were. It was hilarious.

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

that does sound awesome geeta...

i've seen neubauten play several times and each time i was utterly amazed at the precision and intensity with which they played, quiet or deafening.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Stone Temple Pilots were playing at the club next door, and you could hear them through the (very thin) walls!

Was this the same place Terrastock V was? Hilarious!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Revive!
Any feedback on this?
I'm seeing them in a couple of weeks, but still haven't found this album in stores.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I got this now and I'm loving it so far. Pretty much the continuation of Silence but without the cheesy aspects of that album and probably a bit darker and more adventurous (e.g. all but one song are in German).

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 16 February 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

revive part deux!
now that we've had close to two years to mull over their latest album, what are everyone's thoughts?
i for one still think its great, but 'Silence' may be a bit better. nothing on the newest album can beat 'Sabrina' or 'Alles.'

as an aside, when Blixa starts singing about bumblebees on Yume and Meyou i can't stop giggling.

― Grell (Grell), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I completely forgot about this album...

― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 27 October 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

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