einsturzende neubauten Alles Wieder Offen (CD, £13.75)

'Alles Wieder Offen' ("All open again") is released on the band's own Potomak label. Working outside the usual confines of the record industry, Neubauten recorded this album in their own studio funded by pre-payment by a world-wide network of subscribing supporters via their website. 'Alles Wieder Offen' is possibly Einstürzende Neubauten's most fully and perfectly realized album yet. Alexander Hacke's bass has never sounded warmer, Jochen Arbeit's guitar more graceful, the metal of Rudolf Moser and the percussion of N.U. Unruh more unsettling and diverse. Blixa Bargeld's vocals are mercurial & powerful. Elaborate packaging in digipak with a full colour booklet with lyrics in both German and English.