Einsturzende Neubauten: Acklam Hall, Notting Hill
Barney Hoskyns, NME, August 1983
IT IS THE professed aim of Einsturzende Neubauten to exhaust music, to drain it until it implodes into a single catastrophic moment. This, however, is not enough to stop them first draining the physical resources of their audience.
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