Laibach Share New Track "Allgorhythm" || Announce New Album 'Musick' Out 5/1 On Mute

Slovenian collective Laibach have announced details of a new album, MUSICK, their first studio album of original material since 2014’s Spectre. MUSICK will be released on vinyl, CD and digitally on May 1, 2026 via Mute. The album finds Laibach simultaneously celebrating and playfully critiquing our present era of warped reality and gaudy AI copycatting with a collection of undeniably-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: a pathological 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.

Watch and listen to “Allgorhythm” HERE.

The group took a maximalist approach while making the album in their Ljubljana studio. Surrounding themselves with every music-making artifact 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 May 18 in Graz, before travelling through Europe in the summer. Stay tuned for further tour announcements HERE.

Laibach’s MUSICK is released on vinyl, CD and digitally on May 1, 2026 via Mute. Pre-order the album HERE.

Laibach have never believed in originality. Since their formation in 1980s Slovenia, the group have used pastiche, satire and appropriation to address the bombast and contradictions of society. Presenting themselves as a uniformed, anonymous collective, their multi-disciplinary practice spans music, performance, visual art, installation and manifesto, ranging from unusual interpretations of Western pop hits, a performances in North Korea to a live symphonic adaptation of Vladimir Bartol’s novel, Alamut, to theatrical soundtracks (Also Sprach Zarathustra, Wir Sind Das Volk). For over four decades, Laibach have not just questioned but actively dismantled notions of individual artistic genius.

LAIBACH – LIVE

5/18/2026 – Graz (AT) Orpheum

5/19/2026 – Schorndorf (DE), Manufaktur

5/20/2026 – Cologne (DE), Essigfabrik

5/22/2026 – Aarhus (DK), VoxHall

5/23/2026. – Gothenburg (SE), Filmstudion

5/24/2026 – Stockholm (SE), Nya Circus

5/26/2026 – Helsinki (FI), Savoy Theatre

5/27/2026 – Tallinn (EE), Kultuurikeskus

5/28/2026 – Riga (LV), Spelet Concert Hall

5/29/2026 – Vilnius (LT), Loftas

5/30/2026 – Warsaw (PL), Progresja

5/31/2026 – Prague (CZ), Palac Akropolis

6/2/2026 – Leipzig (DE), Täubchenthal

6/3/2026 – Munich (DE), Muffathalle

6/4/2026 - Klagenfurt (AT), Burghof

6/27/2026 – Maribor (SI), Festival Lent

7/24/2026 – Castle (SI), Kolpa Music Festival

9/25/2026 – Ljubljana (SI), Kino Šiška

9/26/2026 - Ljubljana (SI), Kino Šiška

9/29/2026 - London (UK), Islington Assembly Hall

9/30/2026 - Manchester (UK), Ritz

10/1/2026 – Southampton (UK), 1865

10/2/2026 - Canterbury (UK), The Gulbenkian

10/4/2026 - Gent (BE). Democrazy

10/6/2026 - Bochum (DE), Zeche

10/7/2026 - Nijmegen (NL), Doornroosje

10/8/2026 - Hamburg (DE), Große Freiheit 36

10/9/2026 - Oslo (NO), Rockefeller Music Hall

10/11/2026 - Copenhagen (DK), Bremen Teater

10/13/2026 - Berlin (DE), Huxleys Neue Welt

10/14/2026 - Dresden (DE), Reithalle

10/15/2026 - Brno (CZ), Fleda

10/16/2026 – Zagreb (HR), Boogaloo

Tickets and further information: https://www.laibach.org/future-events/

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