"This was the end of Leer and Rental's creative partnership. Leer was not keen on touring, but continued to record, working with Art Of Noise and The The. Rental recorded and played live with Daniel Miller, founder of Mute Records, but not long after retired from music; he died of cancer in 2000. More than a footnote, The Bridge sounds like, well, a bridge: a step on the road to the bold and strange electronic music of the '80s".