Delay is the classic “first album” originally recorded in 1968 that got stuck in the vaults until 1981 when Holger Czukay edited the archived tapes and officially released the album. Delay is a compilation album of early outtakes of Can’s work with singer Malcolm Mooney, including some of the band’s earliest material.
Monster Movie is the debut album of Can, recorded and released in 1969. The use of improvisation, experimentation, editing and layering of sounds set a standard for Can’s subsequent albums in the early 1970s, which were seminal to the freewheeling avant-garde style dubbed “krautrock” by the British music press.