Einsturzende Neubauten: Liebeslieder

Einsturzende Neubauten are not only one of the most innovative and challenging groups of the last 15 years – the way they stormed the citadel of music with an armoury of jackhammers, drills, chain saws, junk metal percussion, sculptures, tapes and amplified guitar noise made them the most formidable live spectacle this side of total war. Yet as the dust settles, the restless musical intelligence releasing and then choreographing the apparent chaos becomes clear. Much more than a spectacle of disaster and ruin, Neubauten’s great and various noises eroticize de-sanitised and dead zones of contemporary life. Surprisingly, given their extraordinary visual spectacle, Liebeslieder is the first proper Einsturzende Neubauten documentary and demonstrates how far Neubauten have dissolved the barriers separating music, performance and visual arts.