AMG Review of Expo 2000

Joshua Landau
All Music Guide

Kraftwerk's first new song after a nearly 20-year break, this song was commissioned for ~Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. In fact, they received such a lucrative commission for it that German taxpayers complained about their paycheck.

The song is audibly Kraftwerk; the simple melodies and drumbeats are there. However, instead of sounding innovative, it has started to sound a bit dated. It's still good, but one would think that a group inventive enough to write "Trans Europe Express" in 1977 could do better in 2000.