PositiveNew Statesman (UK)\"That [the music\'s] apparent simplicity was achieved through considerable complexity of thought and practice is one of the many contradictions that Uwe Schütte explores in this highly stimulating critical biography ... a pleasure to read ... Constructing a personal biography of Kraftwerk would be extremely difficult, and Schütte takes the group on its own terms—writing clearly about each phase in its existence, with digressions into subjects such as Joseph Beuys, Warhol, the history of machine music, and the role of trains in the Holocaust. Most of all, his book sent me back to those core eight albums.
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