The legendary Slovenian group’s first original studio album since 2014’s Spectre, Musick – intensely pop, yet intensely Laibach. Available via Mute on limited edition neon pink vinyl and CD.
This record simultaneously celebrates and critiques the current era of warped reality and AI imitation. The title reflects a duality: an oversaturation, being “sick of music” in an age where over 100,000 new tracks, many AI-generated, are uploaded daily, making us question reality; and a “pathological devotion” that continues to drive the band.
The maximalist creation process in their Ljubljana studio involved analogue synths, toys, computers with sound apps, and collaborators like Donna Marina Mårtensson and Richard X. They drew influences from K-pop…
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To mark the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Laibach and Mute are releasing a special Laibach 40 CD box set. Originally issued in 1985 without the band’s name – as they were banned in Slovenia and Yugoslavia at the time – this legendary first album now appears on a remastered form bearing its originally intended name for the first time.
The box also features historic recordings from Laibach’s formative years. These include the cult live album Ljubljana – Zagreb – Belgrade, capturing their first concerts in 1982 across Yugoslavia, with some tracks originating from early rehearsals held in a practice space wedged between a mortuary, a dissection room, and a madhouse.
Another highlight is M.B. December 21, 1984, documenting a semi-illegal Ljubljana concert…
Laibach announced Alamut to a roomful of music journalists in London back in July of 2022. The album they were aiming to bring to fruition was unusual even by their unorthodox standards. The Slovenians set forth a project on an epic scale: a nine movement symphonic work to be performed in both Ljubljana and Tehran with a full orchestra, written by Iranian composers Idin Samimi Mofakham and Nima A. Rowshan in collaboration with the Slovenian composer Luka Jamni of Laibach.
Alamut would be based on a Slovenian novel published in 1938. Vladimir Bartol’s book, set in eleventh century Persia, was sarcastically dedicated to Benito Mussolini by the author when it was first published. Named after the Alamut Fortress in the province of Qazvin in Iran where…