Laibach

Reveal new SPECTRE trailer, album out on 3 March (UK)/ 11 March (US) – Worldwide tour starts on 6 March.

LAIBACH release a brand new album, SPECTRE, on CD, vinyl and download on 3 March 2014. The deluxe edition of the album will come with four extra tracks plus the SPECTRE Partybook: a laminated linen bound party membership book with manifesto and an invite to register your allegiance to its thesis.

Watch the new SPECTRE trailer featuring The Whistleblowers, the optimistically catchy whistle-along track, alluding to the heroism of the new ‘digital’ Prometheans of freedom here:

You can pre-order SPECTRE here.

A worldwide tour starts on 6 March, and sees the band return to London for a show at the Village Underground on 12 March as well as their first foray into China: a live date on 22 March will be preceded by a Laibach Kunst exhibition (17 January-20 March), plus a Seminar at the City University of Hong Kong on 21 March.

Laibach has once again ‘re-invented’ itself in a newly born, yet polished and solid, formation. And, as is now customary, Laibach calls into question all the rigid and cemented interpretations (and prejudices) about itself, about its music, intentions, philosophy and ideology. Laibach are masters of escape, true escape artists. And yet, despite everything, SPECTRE resonates as a real and full-blooded Laibachian work and nothing else.

With SPECTRE Laibach has created a big, important, and almost dangerous step forward; it seems that this time it has fatally crossed the Rubicon. On this album the group – which has never defined itself politically, but has, nevertheless, constantly analysed politics through its work – comes across as politically engaged as never before. SPECTRE literally sounds like a political manifesto manifest in poetic form. Titles and lyrics couldn’t be more direct. With these lyrics and songs, Laibach, who has always given a controversial impression – or an impression of controversy – especially in terms of its political orientation, is now very clearly taking a position on the political spectrum and probably irreversibly abolishing its own (to some extent quite comfortable) political ‘freedom’ and neutrality.

 

SPECTRE Tracklisting

The Whistleblowers

No History

Eat Liver!

Americana

We Are Millions And Millions Are One

Eurovision

Walk With Me

Bossanova

Resistance Is Futile

Koran

 

TOUR DATES – 2014

6 March – Luzern, Schüür, CH

7 March – Weinheim, Café Central, DE

8 March – Paris, Trabendo FR

10 March – Leuven, Het Depot, BE

12 March – London, Village Underground, UK

13 March – Amsterdam, Melkweg, NL

14 March – Cologne, Stollwerk, DE

15 March – Schorndorf (nr Stuttgart), Manufaktur, DE

16 March – Munich, Technikum, DE

22 March – Hong Kong – The Vine Center, CN

2 April – Rome, Orion Club, IT

3 April – Trezzo (Milan), Live Club, IT

4 April – Frankfurt am Main – Mousontrum, DE

5 April – Dresden – Reithalle, DE

7 April – Berlin, Volksbühne, DE

8 April – Hamburg, Uebel & Gefrährlich, DE

10 April – Malmö, Babel, SE

12 April – Poznan, C.K. Zamek, PL

13 April – Gdansk, B90, PL

15 April – Wien, Arena, AT

16 April – Budapest, A38, HU

17 April – Olomouc, S-Cube, CZ

18 April – Praha, Archa Theatre, CZ

9 May – Zagreb, Tvornica Kulture, HR

16 May – Ljubljana, Krizanke, SI

24 May – Beograd, Dom Omladine, RS

Full details & ticket links: http://www.laibach.org/future-events

“Laibach at their best blur art and confrontation” – Guardian live review

Listen to Resistance Is Futile:

Watch the album trailer: http://youtu.be/nR-VNeLMfqQ

Watch the album trailer II:  http://youtu.be/EqQL3xbGp6A

Pre-order SPECTRE: http://spectre.laibach.org/pre-order-spectre/

Deluxe CD: http://smarturl.it/SpectreDeluxeCD
CD: http://smarturl.it/spectreCD
LP: http://smarturl.it/spectreLP
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/spectreiTunes

Website: http://www.laibach.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Laibach /

Twitter: https://twitter.com/laibachinform

Photograph credit: Maya Nightingale

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