Trans-Europe Express (Clear)
Kraftwerk Kling Klang

Trans-Europe Express (Clear)

Track List

  1. Europe Endless
  2. The Hall of Mirrors
  3. Showroom Dummies
  4. Trans Europe Express
  5. Metal on Metal
  6. Abzug
  7. Franz Schubert
  8. Endless Endless
     

Format

12"

Release date

November 2009

Publisher

Kling Klang

Weight

15.5 oz
Kraftwerk celebrate Europe's romantic past and shimmering future with a glistening panorama of elegance and decadence, travel and technology. The infinite vistas of "Europe Endless" and "Endless Endless'" bookend the album, which includes the unsettling kafka-esque fable "The Hall of Mirrors" and "Showroom Dummies" - Kraftwerk's elegantly ironic reply to critiques of their deadpan manner. But it is the streamlined rhythmic locomotive of Trans Europe Express which dominates with its doppler-effect melodic swerves and hypnotic, pneumatic, piston-pumping rhythm. Poetry in motion.