Soon Over Babaluma

After Suzuki left, Can auditioned singers and then kept the vocals in house: Karoli sang most songs and Schmidt sang Come sta, la luna. Karoli said he never enjoyed singing. The novelist Duncan Fallowell supplied the words for Dizzy Dizzy and Quantum Physics. The title came from Liebezeit mishearing a sentence of Schmidt's, and Schmidt explained it as an event in space, seeing the moon and soon being over Babaluma. Come sta, la luna takes its title from a phrase in a 1503 Leonardo da Vinci notebook, and the cover collage is by Ulli Eichberger.

A sixteen-date British tour began on 27 September 1974 and ended at the Hammersmith Palais, and a mid-tour BBC session at Maida Vale produced the pieces later called Return to BB City and Tape Kebab. Pitchfork's Dominique Leone picked Chain Reaction and Quantum Physics as the highlight, heard Dizzy Dizzy as something like Can's version of ska and Come sta, la luna as a murky electro-bossa, and was underwhelmed only by Splash. Nick Kent of NME was nonplussed.