The band that defined the sound. Dinger and Rother together at last. Speedfreak clean as Cope says. I had my Neu! spiel all ready to go. Oh yeah, Hallogallo's great but the rest of the album is all those stupid noise experiments. But, as usual, I'm dead dead wrong and I've completly underestimated how good Neu! are in their totality.
So Hallogallo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItXUqk_eIE8), Dinger's drums, that wikky-wikky sound and the rest. 10 minutes of pure joy and non stop fury. It's as incredible as you remember and it's way better than the last time you listened to it. They could retire on that and go down as one of the greatest bands in the world. But then they go off into "experimental" territory and do things that most groups would completely fail at. BUT. And it's a big BUT. They do it really really well. Between Hallogallo and Negativland are three beautiful meandering tracks that drift in and out of your consciousness and are just stunning. Negativland is slower than hallogallo and adds some aggressiveness to the mix, but the pattern of drums and bass is the same. Then it rounds off with Lieber Honig which is more drifty but with strange child like horror vocals.
I was never sure if they were trying to re-create music or if that was just something that people made up. But this is just a really fantastic record and the best thing is that it's a record that you can listen to from start to finish and every track is an eye opener. Maybe they weren't trying but they sure achieved something.
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