This album is definitely Kraftwerk's biggest, boldest masterpiece. Not that the band doesn't have others, though. Either way, it is just fantastic to hear something that obviously was made in a far off past, and it shows (the synth sounds, the textures and the vocoder timbres all sound quite dated today), but also that also carry an unspeakable sense of direction and, above all, emotion. What makes Trans-Europe Express stand out in comparison with, say, The Man-Machine, is that pretty much ...
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