Kraftwerk's self-titled album was one-half krautrock deliciousness, and one-half random, haphazard experimentation. Kraftwerk 2, released a couple of years later, is what the self-titled would've been without the former qualities, and a doubling of the latter. The biggest issue here is that it is very hard to discern where one song ends and another begins, with meandering, aimless electronics and simple, repetitive bass making up the bill of the record. Sometimes songs just stop right in the middle of themselves and go off on another semblance of an idea. There are some really nice moments on here, though, like the opening minutes of "Klingklang" and the post-rock-esque section of "Wellenlange", but these moments are few and far between. While the openness to experimentation is surely admirable, there isn't really a leg for most of it to stand on, and it becomes tiring to hear. It would've been impossible to predict that they'd become one of the most influential bands of all time in any music in the coming decade.
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