Strategies Against Architecture IV

Pitchfork 7.0/10 Collecting material from 2002 through 2010, this is a good one-stop intro to the ways Neubauten have tried to move beyond their scorched-earth beginnings.

A.V. Club A- Born out of the Berlin performance-art scene in the early 1980s, Einstürzende Neubauten (along with Throbbing Gristle) staked out the most confrontational, challenging territory of the then-new industrial genre. The group’s deliberately cacophonic approach reverberated in more dance-floor-ready groups like Ministry…

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Strategies Against Architecture IV: 2002-2010 on Rolling Stone.com.

Under The Radar 6.0/10 Considering Einstürzende Neubauten’s early intense, confrontational recordings, they might not have seemed like a creative unit that was built to last.

Pop Matters 9/10 My last run-in with Einstürzende Neubauten was a purchase of 1983's Drawings of a Patient O.