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out soon: Laibach – Musick [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
Musick

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM525

Release Date:
01st May 2026

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Musick
[feat. Wiyaala]

02.
Fluid Emancipation

03.
Singularity
[feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson]

04.
Resistencia
[feat. Gregor Strasbergar]

05.
Love Machine
[feat. Senidah]

06.
Luigi Mangione

07.
Keep It Reel
[feat. Manca Trampuš]

08.
Yes Maybe No
[feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson]

09.
Allgorhythm
[feat. Wiyaala]

16.
Das Göttliche Kind

Press Info:
Slovenian collective Laibach have announced details of a new album, MUSICK, their first studio album of original material since 2014’s Spectre. MUSICK – released on vinyl, CD and digitally on 1 May 2026 on Mute – finds Laibach simultaneously celebrating and playfully critiquing our present era of warped reality and gaudy AI copycatting with a collection ofundeniably catchy pop that revels in hyper-driven post-modernity.

The album’s title, MUSICK, holds the key to this duality. It speaks of oversaturation, being sick of music at a time where there is so much of it that we can barely engage. Over 100,000 new tracks are uploaded online each day, and an increasing number of songs are AI creations, digital waste. Like so much of contemporary life, the simple act of listening to music now makes us question reality. MUSICK speaks to this sickness through its constantly warping sounds and reference points, but it also speaks to another kind of sickness: apathological devotion to music – “an obsession, a kind of drug” – which continues to drive Laibach in this era of oversaturation.

The album launches today with ‘Allgorhythm’, featuring Ghanaian singer Wiyaala. Co-produced by pop powerhouse Richard X (best known for his work with Sugababes, Goldfrapp, New Order and Kelis), the track is accompanied by a joyous video featuring Laibach’s eminent frontman and Wiyaala, designed to skew your algorithm in the best possible direction. This taste of what to expect from the album is an audacious mash-up of electronic pop tropes, hooks and beats. In both content and form, it deftly equates the manipulative nature of algorithms with that of music itself – both spells that we find ourselves under the control of. Laibach’s pop direction recently caught the attention of Slovenian state broadcaster RTV who earmarked ‘Allgorhythm’ a potential official entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, before RTV withdrew from the competition late last year.

The group took a maximalist approach while making the album in their Ljubljana studio. Surrounding themselves with every music-making artefact they could find- from analogue synths to toys to computers stuffed full with sound apps – they invited collaborators from Slovenia and beyond, including long-time collaborator Donna Marina Mårtensson and electropop producer Richard X. They immersed themselves in a broad spectrum of contemporary music production, from K‑pop and J‑pop to ’90s Eurodance. “However our primary influence and reference point remained Laibach itself,” say Laibach, “in all our shades, variations, and historical transformations.” MUSICK is intensely pop, but it’s also intensely Laibach.

Laibach embark on the first leg of their MUSICK tour on 18 May in Graz, before travelling through Europe in the summer.

Snippets:
soon

Videos:
“Musick” [feat. Wiyaala]

“Allgorhythm” [feat. Wiyaala]

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

Recommendations:
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Buy CD:
Mute Bank
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Juno
Rough Trade
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Mute Bank
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Juno
Rough Trade
HHV
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Laibach @ Bandcamp
more soon

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Websites:
Laibach
Mute
Mute Germany

out for a while: Laibach – NATO [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
NATO

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM121

Release Date:
11th October 1994 (original release date)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
NATO

A2.
Final Countdown

A3.
In The Army Now

A4.
Dogs Of War

B1.
Alle Gegen Alle

B2.
War

B3.
National Reservation

B4.
2525

B5.
Mars On River Drina

Press Info:
NATO is the seventh in a sequence of official Laibach LP releases that have artistically redefined the political map of Europe. The LP’s themes are flagged by the single release of Europe’s Final Countdown. The NATO title is taken from the initials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the mutual military support group founded in 1949 by the USA, Canada and various European countries. Following the break-up of the Soviet bloc, NATO has recently signed friendship treaties with Russia and other former Warsaw Pakt countries with the aim of promoting peace and prosperity in the upper Northern hemisphere. Meanwhile, in the Balkans, the war goes on.Now Laibach take NATO where NATO itself has refused to go. The selections on NATO: the album have been determined by the group’s response to changing Europe and changing world orders.

Before NATO, these songs had a different life, carried different meanings. Choosing to re-work pre-existing materials is a Laibach tradition extending as far back as “Panorama” – their second single release – a superbly drilled disco record also based on Mars, from Holst’s Planet suite.

As with their later takes of Queen, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, these NATO appropriations operate on a number of levels. First and foremost they can be enjoyed at a purely musical level, for this is possibly Laibach’s most musically considered album. Its combination of characteristic Laibach – big choruses, martial sound and beats – and contemporary electronic dance technology makes it their most accessible release since Let It Be. Once seduced by its surface attractiveness, you find yourself entering the Laibach labyrinth of meanings and motivations. In context of NATO and the new political-cultural map in which they’re placed, these sons are now weighted with different significance’s. Yet traces of their original meanings resonate through Laibach’s re-models- and understanding Laibach’s original versions.

For the Laibach method is based on the premise that traumas from the past affecting the present and future can only be healed by returning to the initial conflict. Tracking the traces of these original songs brings you to the source of present traumas.

Snippets:

Videos:
“Final Countdown”

“Alle Gegen Alle”

“In The Army Now”

“War”

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

Recommendations:
all stuff by Laibach we featured
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

Buy CD:
originally released in 1994

Buy Vinyl:
originally released in 1994

Buy Download:
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
Beatport
Boomkat
Bleep
iTunes
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Qobuz
Deezer
Apple Music
Anghami
Spotify
Youtube Music

Websites:
Laibach
Mute
Mute Germany

out for a while: Laibach – Kapital [Mute Records]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
Kapital

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM82

Release Date:
April 1992 (original release date)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Decade Null

02.
Everlasting In Union

03.
Illumination

04.
Le Peiviledge Des Morts

05.
Codex Durex

06.
Hymn To The Black Sun

07.
Young Europa (Parts 1 To 10)

08.
The Hunters Funeral Procession

09.
White Law

10.
Wirtschaft Ist Tot
(Album Mix)

11.
Torso

12.
Entartete Welt (The Discovery Of The North Pole)

13.
Kinderreich
(English Version)

14.
Sponsered By Mars

15.
Regime Of Coincidence, State Of Gravity

Info:
Originally released in 1992 this album was re-released in the 2000er for the download/streaming edition

Snippets:

Video:
“Wirtschaft Ist Tot”

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

Recommendations:
all stuff by Laibach we featured
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

Buy CD:
originally released in 1992

Buy Vinyl:
originally released in 1992

Buy Download:
Qobuz
Bleep
Boomkat
Beatport
more soon

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Tidal
Qobuz
Spotify
Deezer
Anghami
Youtube Music
more soon

Websites:
Laibach
Mute
Mute Germany

out now: Laibach – I Want To Know What Love Is EP [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
I Want To Know What Love Is EP

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
MUTE681

Release Date:
07th January 2025

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
I Want To Know What Love Is

02.
I Want To Know What Love Is
(Extended)

03.
I Want To Know What Love Is
(Distorted Love Mix)

Press Info:
Laibach complete a trilogy of interpretations with ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’, a 3-track release featuring their interpretation of Foreigner’s track – out now on Mute.

Watch the video for ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ below

‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ (which follows their recent interpretations of ‘Strange Fruit’ and ‘White Christmas’) has been performed as an encore on the Slovenian provocateurs Opus Dei Revisited tour (which continues into Feb / March – full dates below). The track, well documented through countless social media posts by bewildered and enthralled attendees, has sparked a first – a Laibach-a-long – as audiences join in with the classic AOR track.

Listeners curious as to what led to this track to be plucked from middle-of-the-road radio and placed alongside reworked versions from Laibach’s 1987 international breakthrough album Opus Dei might look for clues in the recent trilogy of releases. ‘Strange Fruit’ – another highlight from the current shows – was refracted to examine how tyranny, hatred and murder pervades in human history as well as today; while ‘White Christmas’ examined the vacuum that the joyous holiday can intensify within those ‘without’ and the magnification of loss that it creates.

Is there a further clue in the name of the band who originally sang ‘I Want To Know What Love is’? Perhaps a demand for understanding, empathy and acceptance is not what would be expected from a band known for its challenging and complex treatise. But then again, in the current world there is little that could be more challenging and complex than achieving peace and love.

Irony is a word often used by people clamouring to understand and explain Laibach, but across the three versions on the single you get a sense of a simplicity and pleasure pervading through these new interpretations. The arrangement by Laibach and their Slovenian collaborators, Silence, and the mix by famed Grammy-winning US producer Marc Urselli (Nick Cave, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, U2), don’t waver, but instead play things straight and true throughout.

After stating ‘Love Is Still Alive’ on the EP of the same name in 2023, Laibach prove it now with this song. They ask their audience to show them love and you can hear for yourselves – on the Extended Mix included on the single – the heartfelt response they receive back.

Snippets:

Video:
“I Want To Know What Love Is (Live On Different Locations In EU, 2024)”

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

Recommendations:
all stuff by Laibach we featured
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

Buy Download:
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
JunoDownload
iTunes
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Deezer
Anghami
Apple Music
Spotify
Youtube Music

Websites:
Laibach
Mute
Mute Germany

out now: Laibach + Silence – White Christmas EP [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach + Silence

Title:
White Christmas EP

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
MUTE679

Release Date:
21st November 2024

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
White Christmas

02.
White Christmas
(Silence Night)

Press Info:
LAIBACH, have shared ‘White Christmas’, a two-track single release that follows their recent cover of ‘Strange Fruit’. For this special seasonal release, they have worked with fellow Slovenian artists, Silence, to examine the comforting bauble that adorns everyone’s festive season, and challenge people to scrutinise what lies beneath its warm veneer.

‘White Christmas’ was originally written by Irving Berlin – a Russian-born Jewish immigrant who didn’t celebrate Christmas – for the 1942 musical, Holiday Inn. The Bing Crosby version of the song, which reminisces about an old-fashioned Christmas, is not only the best-selling Christmas song of all time, it’s also the best-selling single ever according to Guinness World Records. True to the season, the song has an inherent melancholia about it, and was dedicated to Irvin Berlin’s three-week old son who died on Christmas Day.

Laibach – in collaboration with their compatriots Silence – invite us to consider what future Christmases, with the aggressive climate and political changes around the world, will look like. Let this track be a weapon in the war against misery and unhappiness.

Earlier this year the band released the remastered edition of Laibach’s classic album, Opus Dei and later this month, Record Store Day (29 November) will mark the first ever vinyl release of the band’s legendary John Peel Sessions. These sessions unveiled the first inklings of what Opus Dei would be, and the band’s 12-month salute to their 1987 album continues in December with the release of Opus Dei Revisited, which features two radical new interpretations of the album – one by Laibach, and the other by original producer Rico Conning.

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