Money (album)

Money is the fifth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released in February 1992 by Wax Trax!

It was originally intended to be titled Apart, with each of the two core members, Sascha Konietzko and En Esch, recording half an album and combining their work.

Bandmates Sascha Konietzko and En Esch had a falling out at the end of their 1990 tour with My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.

[1] Both worked in the same Hamburg studio, M.O.B., with engineer Blank Fontana and guitarist Günter Schulz, but never interacted with each other directly.

After yet another tracklist revision by Konietzko, he changed the title to Money, and later reconciled with Esch in the later stages of the album's production.

Hughes related that the image represents "my disillusionment with the street lifestyle I was experiencing at the time, and the art carries with it the implication that no matter what temptation lies in your path, you still gotta pay!

Alex Henderson of Allmusic called it "excellent" and stated that "a blistering metal guitar, distorted industrial vocals, and a syncopated dance beat could indeed be united into a cohesive, exciting whole".

[13] He noted that there were only seven new tracks, and that the rest were either remixes or remakes of songs from Naïve, KMFDM's previous album.