Einstürzende Neubauten

Strategies Against Architecture II

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By 1991, Einstürzende Neubauten had already spent nearly a decade dismantling conventional rock with scrap metal, contact microphones, and relentless conceptual rigor. *Strategies Against Architecture II* finds them in mid-evolution, a collection that mixes studio work with live captures to map their shifting sonic landscape. The album title itself—a continuation of their earlier manifesto—suggests architecture as a target, something to interrogate and dismantle rather than inhabit. These tracks move between percussive assault and eerie quietude, between the clangorous and the meditative, always maintaining that distinctly unsettling Berlin sensibility. There's no comfortable groove here, only the sound of systems being challenged from within. For anyone following the band's trajectory or interested in how industrial music could remain genuinely strange and uncompromising well into the nineties, this document captures Neubauten at a crucial moment.

Item Details+
Genre Electronic, Rock
Style Abstract, Industrial, Experimental, Avantgarde
Media Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Near Mint (NM or M-)
Description Insert and poster included. CDs have some small hairlines/scratches. Carefully packed and shipped with love from Vienna. Order more, save on shipping!
Label Reihe EGO
Year 1991
Country Germany
Format CD
Tracklist+

1-1. Abfackeln! 3:30

1-2. Partynummer (Live) 1:35

1-3. Z.N.S. 5:39

1-4. Die Elektrik (Merle) 2:21

1-5. Intermezzo / Yü-Gung (Live) 6:18

1-6. Seele Brennt 4:08

1-7. Blutvergiftung 1:50

1-8. Sand 3:30

1-9. Kangolicht 4:14

1-10. Armenia (Live) 4:39

1-11. Ein Stuhl In Der Hölle 2:08

2-1. Vanadium I Ching 4:53

2-2. Leid Und Elend (Live) 4:35

2-3. DNS-Wasserturm 6:27

2-4. Armenia II (Live) 3:46

2-5. Fackeln! 1:56

2-6. Ich Bin's 3:21

2-7. Hirnlego 3:09

2-8. Wardrobe 2:39

2-9. Bildbeschreibung 9:31

2-10. Haus Der Lüge (Live) 4:37

2-11. Jordache 0:28

2-12. Kein Bestandteil Sein (Alternative Ending) 6:43

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