krautrock Archive
21 Jul 2025
Album Review: Sendelica – The Complete Mankind
Here’s something different. A band most have never heard of, based in Wales, with shifting personnel built around two or three main players, and with an extensive catalog. They release […]
10 Jun 2025
Book Review: ‘Krautrock Eruption’ by Wolfgang Seidel
The term krautrock is a fraught one. The label – applied to a type of music – carries a whiff of bigotry, as “kraut” was a pejorative slur used to […]
24 Dec 2024
Musoscribe’s Best of 2024: New Releases
Everybody has their favorite new releases of each year; here are mine. This year I reviewed nearly 120 new releases. As per usual, the list reflects my particular interests, so […]
13 Dec 2024
Album Review: Trees Speak – Timefold
As I’ve observed before, Tucson, Arizona isn’t the first place one would look for krautrock. But in 2024, it may well be the best place. As Trees Speak, Daniel Martin […]
27 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… In Perfect Harmonia (continued) A subsequent performance would yield more positive results. “We once played in Hamburg,” he recalls. “That was 1974, and there was a […]
26 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Something Neu! (continued) For his part, Rother played multilayered electric guitar parts that skittered around, over and under a repetitive, often one-chord musical structure. The meter […]
25 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 1 of 3)
A pair of 2024 releases on vinyl refocuses a well-earned spotlight on an important corner of modern music. A deluxe version of Musik von Harmonia, the 1973 debut album from […]
04 Apr 2024
Album Review: Mushroom – Messages from the Spliff Bunker
A kind of indie-underground supergroup, Mushroom is at its core the brainchild of Pat Thomas. Combining avant-garde, free jazz and krautrock influences and textures might – to the causal listener, […]
02 Jan 2023
Steve Hillage: Ten Albums That Changed My Life (Part One)
The following is a significantly more in-depth version of a short piece I edited for Goldmine Magazine . — bk Steve Hillage is one of those special musicians whose influence […]
07 Sep 2022
Five Landmark Krautrock Albums from 1972
While it didn’t make more than a ripple in the commercial waters of 1970s American popular music, the subgenre known as krautrock would exert a significant influence on the music […]