While around 1980, punk and Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) were solidifying as supposedly clear-cut concepts, S.Y.P.H.'s music testified to the blurriness of genre boundaries: already on the first, self-titled LP, the band belts out short punky songs like “Zurück zum Beton” and “Lachleute und Nettmenschen”, while the B-side surprises with more than ten-minute long Kraut-inspired pieces.
