Freed of the drum machines and synths on the title track, Roher takes his clean guitar sound into a kind of Ry Cooder territory. Then he pulls it back and makes what feels like a clean Harmonia record, flirting with reverb and delay techniques that will become huge in the Eighties. “Karusell” is one of the better post-Neu! tracks out there, and his benign take on things makes this sparkle.

After parting ways with Klaus Dinger following the release of Neu 75!, guitarist and founding Kraftwerk member Michael Rother headed into Conny Plank’s studio to work on his first solo album in 1976. With the exception of Can’s Jaki Liebezeit on drums, Rother plays everything on Flammende Herzen, and in many ways, the record presents the purest distillation of Rother’s minimalist, utopian vision. Liebezeit provides a subtler and more versatile rhythmic bedrock than Dinger, on top of which Rother layers simple, yet beautiful lines of guitar, bass and synth, everything shimmering and glistening in blissful harmony as it carries the listener off over the horizon toward sonic nirvana.