Nitzer Ebb: Next Steps

Nitzer Ebb: Next Steps

Industrial pioneers Nitzer Ebb are known for dark, demanding club tracks, but they also tried straight-up synth-pop, creepy cyber ballads, and stripped-down transhumanist electro-body-rock (take "Fitness to Purpose" to the gym). "Lightning Man" and "Violent Playground" toy with New Wave cliches, while remixes from superproducer Flood and Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder cement the duo's dance-floor appeal.