Laub, a thoroughly 21st-century band in Berlin, creates starkly beautiful music that has one foot in pop music and the other in the future, unshackling emotions without recycling musical ideas from the past. Antye Greie-Fuchs, who supplies Laub’s vocals and programs the workhorse sampler/sequencer MPC2000, says: "We always try to be really authentic, which means we get influences and we don’t reproduce that. We strongly try to find our own way." More