In Mr Schulze’s sense, loop is certainly best described as a squiggle (a not exactly drawn ring-shaped curl). Repetition yes, but please with a bump in the wheel! Whether the grooveboxes that were available to Lindbergh for making music in the early 2000s were capable of such inconsistencies remains to be seen. Either way, the songs on “Loopy” fully live up to the album title.

The album is released approximately 20 years after the creation of the songs on it, which until then had only been released as singles or not at all. The music offers a glimpse into a time when electronic music was reinventing itself by merging with indie. A wonderful new experimental field emerged between synthesisers and computers on the one hand and convoluted bands with guitar, drums, and bass, in which the perfect artificial sounds of the machines often blended with human-generated sounds that expressed lovingly cultivated musical inadequacies. And Lindbergh possessed precisely this charm!

Oh yes, Lindbergh is, of course, pop music too! Songs like Mango, Über Milch, and Im Zug nach B, which speak of a life somewhere between shared accommodation, the unbearable lightness of existence, and all-nighters, have the potential to become indie disco hits. And only Mr. Schulze knows why they failed to achieve great success …