It’s been several years since the end of rock music was declared. American bands like Trans Am, Tortoise, Gastr Del Sol, and The Sea and Cake, in particular, were working on a new vision of post-rock music. What these bands had in common was, above all, their rejection of rock music as they knew it: as a slogan, as a rigid system of verse and chorus, singer, message, and audience.

All of that happened quite a long time ago – and the musicians of these bands have since gone gray. But of course, there are still musicians today who carry this spirit through the present into the future. Like EINSEINSENS – this band from Berlin and Würzburg, which seems to carry much of its past in its genes. When we hear them, we think of Trans Am, for example: those glamorous rock riffs, those vocoder voices, those vintage keyboard sounds. Some of it sounds like Kraftwerk, others like Can, Neu!, Hawkwind, Stereolab, or the synth pop of the eighties. Added to this are the complex, shifted structures of free jazz music and a bit of punk, like Black Flag or Hüsker Dü once did.