Jeremy Allen looks back to EN's glorious sixth album, Tabula Rasa, and praises the idea of the post-hype masterpiece
In 2009, Blixa Bargeld published a semi-fictional tour diary that doubled-up as a personal log of fancy restaurants he’d dine in when not playing live or travelling from city to city. Europa Kreuzweise: Eine Litanei was translated into English and re-published last year by Contra Mundum Press as Europe Crosswise: A Litany, a drôle account of Einstürzende Neubauten’s European tour of 2008, with all the details of the shows eschewed for the all-important sumptuous salvers in salubrious surroundings.
Next to a generic setlist you’d read about Bargeld tucking into a buttermilk-steeped kremstal veal fillet with lemon noodles in Vienna or berating...
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