Various Artists - A Tribute To NEU! (DELUXE EDITION, TRANSPARENT VINYL) |

Their influence is widespread, international, continued. NEU! paved the road ahead, created a model of forward propulsion away from hidebound rock cliches. Which is why the NEU! Tribute volume is so especially appropriate. They show how much there is for subsequent generations to unpack in NEU!, how much is buried, implied in their sound.

And so, The National pull back and reveal the latent colours, rhythmic potentials and mental freeways of “Im Gluck”. Fink honours the beautiful, lapping waterscape of “Weissensee”. Mogwai and Man Man acknowledge the road much travelled laid by “Super”. Alexis Taylor’s “4+1 = 5”, enhances Rother´s melancholia on "Wave Mother" while Stephen Morris and Gabe Gurnsey’s remix of “Hallogallo” is acid-tipped, machinic, dripping with robot sweat.

Yann Tiersen’s remix of “Lieber Honig” plunges deep down into the waters atop which it originally floated, Idles tear up “Negativland`’ inside out, exposes and rearranges its tangled wires and workings. Finally Guerilla Toss’s “Zum Herz” and They Hate Change’s version of “After Eight” are salutes from a band whose members were unborn in NEU!’s heyday.

NEU!, für immer. NEU! forever.

(This is a 2024 Record Store Day release)