Einstürzende Neubauten Silence Is Sexy

3 stars out of 5 - "...[It has] unnerving grace. Using everything from string quartets to jet turbines, metal sheets and electric guitar, it moves from being severely irritating to moments of great beauty..."
"...Brilliant....[it] is concerned with creativity, with the nature of art, science and even German identity....[they] remain without peer."
Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year" [2000].
"...Animated by [an] eerie inmost light....Musically, the album is all the more disturbing for being so restrained, with minimal percussive backing shadowing [Blixa] Bargeld's whispers....[it] is speckled with sparkling shafts of light..."
"...The sound of the prototypical pre-Reznor industrial group adjusting to the rhythms of the digital age. The more tuneful...moments find the factory-floor clamor clicking along at a ones-and-zeroes pace..."
4 stars out of 5 - "...From Berlin and rightly venerated as noise insurrectionaires 'par excellence'."
4 stars out of 5 -- "It references every aspect of their extreme sonic smorgasbord...the distended title track an exercise in skin-tingling, pin-drop dynamics."