I have to disagree with the previous comment. I too like "Simulationszeitalter" and "Sex With The Machines" but this is different album, in the good meaning.

I really like the over all feeling in this, really rough, minimal and the lyrics are top notch. It sounds a bit like punk, only made with synthesizers. I guess it is some sort of electroclash/electropunk. Maybe not as melodic than the earlier stuff but absolutely fantastic four on the four that makes your hand clapping feet go thumping.

If you like electro, I'm sure you like this. I personally only like a handful of artists from this genre but Anthony sure is one of the best, whatever he does.

"Popkiller" is not a pop killer. "Sex with the machines" and "Simulationszeitalter" were pop killers. But it doesn't matter.
Rother has created a new label with this release: Datapunk. "Popkiller" is a new direction (maybe not the most inventive) that can really shocks if you loved "Sex with..." and "Simulations...".
In fact, "Popkiller" follows to "Electropop" (2001, under the name Little Computer People). This is an high quality pop/dance music that you'll never heard on the radio, that you can dance and sing on it. I think that it's what Rother aimed with this release, successfully.

A weak new album from Anthony Rother. Most of the elements that made "Simulationszeitalter" and "Sex With The Machines" modern classics are missing; the electro beats are ditched in favor of the 4-to-the-floor thump, the previously superb vocoder vocals now sound crude and in-your-face, the lyrics are just inane and most of the riffs and basslines are of the embarassing one-finger variety. In short, the subtlety is all gone, and this new sound is what Rother defines as "datapunk", I suppose - crass and unrefined. The album does have redeeming moments like the instrumental "10.000 Dancer", and some tracks have good elements behind the annoying vocals, but otherwise this is a highly uninspiring effort. Back to the drawing board.