German industrial icons Einstürzende Neubauten have announced a new album, Ramps (apm: alien pop music), which will be out April 5 via Potomak. As usual, the album began as “Rampen,” experiments on stage, and their 2022 tour was the basis for the songs here.
“On the album, I found a few solutions and formulated things in ways I haven’t formulated them before, because they were never so clear to me,” says founding member Blixa Bargeld. “I’m someone who believes you can achieve knowledge through music. It’s always been that way. I follow the conviction. I’ll find something in the music that I didn’t know before. And sing something that I didn’t know. Something that turns out to be true. Or, to take this down a notch, something that at least has meaning.”
The album’s artwork, solid yellow with the band’s name, nods to The Beatles’ White Album. “It’s based on the idea that the Einstürzende Neubauten is just as famous in another solar system as The Beatles are in our world,” Blixa says.
The first single from the album is “Ist Ist” which, unlike the rather smooth songs on 2021’s Alles in Allem, this has some of that old school Neubauten destruction in it. Listen below.
Ramps (apm: alien pop music)
1. Wie lange noch?
2. Ist Ist
3. Pestalozzi
4. Es könnte sein
5. Before I Go
6. Isso Isso
7. Besser Isses
8. Everything will be fine
9. The Pit of Language
10. Planet Umbra
11. Tar & Feathers
12. Aus den Zeiten
13. Ick wees nich (Noch nich)
14. Trilobites
15. Gesundbrunnen