This week on Line Noise a genuine legend makes his return to the show: Wolfgang Flür, who was an integral member of Kraftwerk, during the group’s glory yeas and is now an inspired solo artist. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke about his new solo album, Times, which is released in March 2025; about working with former New Order bass player Peter Hook on the record; we spoke about humour and optimism (and why Kraftwerk could do with a bit more of the former); about pacifism, Yello, Emil Schult and much more. Line Noise comes to you with the support of Cupra. Photo by Dan Carty.

NB It turns out Wolfgang Flür didn’t, in fact, work with Thomas Bangalter, as he explains in this interview. Oh well. I guess I wanted it to be true. Apologies. Enjoy the album anyway.