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Laibach have detailed MUSICK, the Slovenian group’s first new album of original material since 2014. It arrives May 1st via Mute.
The album is described as the legendary avant-garde industrial outfit’s “most pop outing” to date, as hinted by the lead single “Allgorhythm,” which features Ghanaian singer Wiyaala and a notable co-production credit from pop auteur Richard X. Building from a humorous spoken-word passage from frontman Milan Fras, the song kicks into a club-ready, dance-pop beat that occasionally drops out for more sardonic lines from Fras, such as the chorus refrain: “Slaves to the algorithm.”
The rest of the album sees the group making similar observations about the “present era of warped reality and gaudy AI copycatting.” Other sonic excursions include dips into J- and K-pop, with the band — primarily associated with industrial music — embracing a “broad spectrum of contemporary music production.”
“However our primary influence and reference point remained Laibach itself,” the group assured in a press release, “in all our shades, variations, and historical transformations.”
Laibach will be supporting the album with a European/UK tour that launches in mid-May. Get tickets here.
Pre-order MUSICK via Mute. Stream the video for “Allgorhythm” below.
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MUSICK Tracklist:
01. Musick
02. Fluid Emancipation
03. Singularity
04. Resistencia
05. Love Machine
06. Luigi Mangione
07. Keep It Reel
08. Yes Maybe No
09. Allgorhythm
10. Das göttliche Kind
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