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out soon: Laibach – Musick:Encore [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
Musick:Encore

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM535

Release Date:
20th November 2026

Format:
Vinyl, CD, download & streaming

Tracklist CD & Digital:
01.
This Is The End
[feat. Kaja Skrbinšek]

02.
Yom Kippur

03.
#US
[feat. Marina Mårtensson]

04.
Tales From The Crypt

05.
Faith No More
[feat. Marina Mårtensson & Bojan Cvjetićanin]

06.
Musick
(Unsick Version)

07.
Resistencia
[feat. Gregor Strasbergar]
(Richard X Remix)

08.
Love Machine
[feat. Senidah]
(Punchbag Remix)

09.
#US
[feat. Marina Mårtensson]
(Silverwingkiller Remix)

10.
Modern Talking
[feat. Manca Trampuš]

11.
Fluid Emancipation
(Fat White Family’s Insecure Man Meets Schopenhauer Up Town Remix)

12.
Allgorhythm
[feat. Wiyaala]
(Algorithm Remix, Assisted by iTurk)

13.
Love Machine
[feat. Senidah]
(The Lincolnshire Poacher Remix)

14.
Musick
[feat. Wiyaala]
(Balžalorsky Remix)

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
This Is The End
[feat. Kaja Skrbinšek]

A2.
Yom Kippur

A3.
#US
[feat. Marina Mårtensson]

A4.
Tales From The Crypt

A5.
Faith No More
[feat. Marina Mårtensson & Bojan Cvjetićanin]

B1.
Musick
[feat. Wiyaala]
(Balžalorsky Remix)

B2.
Resistencia
[feat. Gregor Strasbergar]
(Richard X Remix)

B3.
Love Machine
[feat. Senidah]
(Punchbag Remix)

B4.
Modern Talking
[feat. Manca Trampuš]

B5.
Musick
(Unsick Version)

Press Info:
So, you thought you were sick of MUSICK? It gets worse: LAIBACH have just announced details of a companion piece to their recent album, out on 20 November 2026. MUSICK : ENCORE features previously unreleased material from original MUSICK sessions alongside brand new remixes from the likes of SILVERWINGKILLER, Richard X, The Lincolnshire Poacher and PUNCHBAG.

The album launches today, showcasing two distinct sides of the album: a brand new track, ‘This Is The End’, featuring Slovenian singer and musician Kaja Skrbinšek, and a new remix of ‘Love Machine’, featuring Senidah, one of the most distinctive voices in Balkan music today, by labelmates PUNCHBAG, who bring their own brand of unfiltered punk and ecstatic pop to their remix.

These two new tracks amplify the original themes of MUSICK, described by Uncut as a “meditation on music itself” and by Classic Pop as “…a hyperreal reflection of the sound of now”.

MUSICK and the new companion piece are a collection of undeniably catchy pop that revels in hyper-driven post-modernity. “Perhaps these are the final moments when creating music purely for enjoyment still carries broader significance – before alien, generative intelligence outplays and outperforms us all,” say Laibach. “So, we seized the moment.”

Guests and remixers on the album each bring new aspects to the Laibach machine, and include Kaja Skrbinšek (who features on new track ‘This Is The End’) plus Slovene sensation Senidah, who adds her distinctive vocals to ‘Love Machine’ (appearing on two mixes, by Mute labelmates PUNCHBAG, and on UK renegade mixer The Lincolnshire Poacher’s version).

Elsewhere on the album, electropop producer Richard X co-produced several tracks and remixes ‘Resistencia’; Ghanian artist Wiyaala, the “Lioness of Africa”, who they first saw in an underground club in Ljubljana, features on two new versions of ‘Musick’, the Unsick Version and a remix by Balžalorsky). Long-time collaborator Donna Marina Mårtensson, features on new track ‘#US’ while Manca Trampuš, the frontwoman of the Slovenian indie band Koala Voice, features on new track ‘Modern Talking’; Bojan Cvjetićanin, from Joker Out, one of Slovenia’s most successful contemporary rock bands, who guests on ‘Faith No More’, while Gregor Strasbergar from the band MRFY, one of the most compelling alternative acts in Slovenia, guests on ‘Resistencia (Richard X Remix)’.

Laibach continue their MUSICK tour this autumn with dates throughout Europe and the UK, including a performance at Islington Assembly Hall, London, on 29 September. For tickets and further tour announcements, visit the band’s live page.

Snippets:
soon

Full Track Streaming:
“This Is The End” [feat. Kaja Skrbinšek]

“Love Machine (Punchbag Remix)”

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

Related Release:
album “Musick”

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out now: 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:

Videos:
“Fluid Emancipation”

“Musick” [feat. Wiyaala]

“Allgorhythm” [feat. Wiyaala]

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

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

Buy CD:
Mute Bank
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Juno
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Saturn
more soon

Buy Vinyl:
Mute Bank
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Juno
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HHV
WOM
Decks
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Saturn
more soon

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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

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Laibach @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
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more soon

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Websites:
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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

Commercial Streaming Services:
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Qobuz
Spotify
Deezer
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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: