Neu!
July 21st, 2021In German, Neu! means New! And in 1971, Neu! was indeed new, as that was the year this archetypical krautrock band formed. (As its name implies, krautrock is a form of German music that developed in the late 1960s and combined elements of non-blues-based rock, psychedelic, avant-garde and ambient.) It didn’t take much time for the members of Neu!–Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother from another pioneering German band called Kraftwerk–to tear their way out of the shrinkwrap that encased them and become one of the very best bands of the genre.