Die Krupps
Vision 2020 Vision (2lp)
Steel, hard work, muscle strength, sweat, machines...but also structural change, unemployment, dislocation, xenophobia and anxiety about the future: powerful words that Die Krupps have always used and filled with content, of which they attach visions to, what they transform into a solid base for their music - their very own, unique sound that has consistently evolved over the past four decades and that continues to be unmistakable. "Vision 2020 Vision" is a concept album: music, artwork and lyrics are inextricably linked, they fuel and cross-fertilize each other. The title song puts in a nutshell where this development is bound to take us: "Violence will soon explode, frustration reaches overload, revolution is imminent, we're in the year of discontent".