Laibach go pop, sort of, on new album ‘MUSICK’: watch “Allgorhythm” video

Slovenian industrial icons Laibach have announced new album MUSICK which will be out May 1 via Mute. They say the title is in reference to the sheer amount of music that gets uploaded to streaming services every day (somewhere around 100,000 tracks), and the increasing amount of it that is AI slop. It’s a duality: both “sick of music” and reflecting their “pathological devotion” to the band.

With that Laibach have made their most pop album of their 40-years career, enlisting hitmaker Richard X (Annie, Kelis, Goldfrapp) as producer. Mind you, it’s still Laibach so this is their version of pop that retains those signature martial melodies and Milan Fras’ guttural baritone. You can get a taste of this shiny new Laibach on “Allgorhythm” which features Ghanaian singer Wiyaala. Watch the video below.

Laibach will be on tour across Europe this spring — all dates are listed below.

MUSICK
Musick
Fluid Emancipation
Singularity
Resistencia
Love Machine
Luigi Mangione
Keep It Reel
Yes Maybe No
Allgorhythm
Das göttliche Kind

LAIBACH LIVE
18 May – Graz (AT) Orpheum
19 May – Schorndorf (DE), Manufaktur
20 May – Cologne (DE), Essigfabrik
22 May – Aarhus (DK), VoxHall
23 May. – Gothenburg (SE), Filmstudion
24 May – Stockholm (SE), Nya Circus
26 May – Helsinki (FI), Savoy Theatre
27 May – Tallinn (EE), Kultuurikeskus
28 May – Riga (LV), Spelet Concert Hall
29 May – Vilnius (LT), Loftas
30 May – Warsaw (PL), Progresja
31 May – Prague (CZ), Palac Akropolis
2 June – Leipzig (DE), Täubchenthal
3 June – Munich (DE), Muffathalle
4 June, Klagenfurt (AT), Burghof
27 June – Maribor (SI), Festival Lent
24 July – Castle (SI), Kolpa Music Festival
25 Sep – Ljubljana (SI), Kino Šiška
26 Sep – Ljubljana (SI), Kino Šiška
29 Sep – London (UK), Islington Assembly Hall
30 Sep – Manchester (UK), Ritz
1 Oct – Southampton (UK), 1865
2 Oct – Canterbury (UK), The Gulbenkian
4 Oct – Gent (BE). Democrazy
6 Oct – Bochum (DE), Zeche
7 Oct – Nijmegen (NL), Doornroosje
8 Oct – Hamburg (DE), Große Freiheit 36
9 Oct – Oslo (NO), Rockefeller Music Hall
11 Oct – Copenhagen (DK), Bremen Teater
13 Oct – Berlin (DE), Huxleys Neue Welt
14 Oct – Dresden (DE), Reithalle
15 Oct – Brno (CZ), Fleda
16 Oct – Zagreb (HR), Boogaloo