Niun Niggund

Spin (1/01, p.73) - Ranked #16 in Spin's "Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000]".
Wire (1/00, p.67) - Included in Wire Magazine's "50 Records Of The Year ['99]"
Spin (3/00, pp.150-2) - 8 out of 10 - "...Dripping with mellifluous analog filigree, rear-end-guiding grooves, and a panoply of percolating flatulence [NIUN NIGGUNG] continues to argue that armchair techno needn't be such a solemn, over-intellectualized affair..."
Q Magazine (11/99, p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...when they give their enthusiasm for tunes and grooves free rein...you begin to see what it is that makes them so attractive to some."
Alternative Press (3/00, p.82) - 4 out of 5 - "...[their] synthetic-beat/sound collages have consistently come on as wild frondescences of the elemental and the composite....this may be their most realized work..."
Magnet (4-5/00, p.84) - "...[They] jump around Computer World's many townships....This prickly pastiche of textures and harmonic layers gives the group humanity, a ghostly, machine-like breathiness matched only by its sense of bawdy humor and relentless melodicism....Warm and delicious."
Entertainment Weekly (2/18/00, p.87) - "...the most human-sounding of the new German electronica....their best set yet, with a dramatic range...that belies their transistorized heart." - Rating: A-
CMJ (2/14/00, p.22) - "...an avant-garde social statement...compelled to cut loose to the sound of all that digital bubbling and analog popping..."