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Spectre Vinyl Edition

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SPECTRE Vinyl Edition

Format: Vinyl LP 

Label: MUTE

LAIBACH releases its brand new album, SPECTRE, on 3rd March 2014. The vinyl edition of the album will come with 10 tracks. The 10 tracks CD is also included.

With SPECTRE, Laibach has once again ‘re-invented’ itself in a newly born, yet polished and solid, formation. And, as is now customary, the band calls into question all the rigid and cemented interpretations (and prejudices) about itself, about its music, intentions, philosophy and ideology. And yet, despite everything, SPECTRE resonates as a real and full-blooded Laibachian work and nothing else. With this albumLaibach has created a big, important, and dangerous step forward; SPECTRE literally sounds like a political manifesto in poetic form.

The album opens with The Whistleblowers, a contagiously optimistic piece of classic “militant & symphonic” Laibach, sounding like the sequel to Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts’s 1914 “Colonel Bogey March”. This rousing whistle along track – “From North and South / We come from East and West / Breathing as one / Living in fame / Or dying in flame” alludes to the heroism of the new, ‘digital’ Prometheans of freedom – Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange.

No History, knows no mercy, and leaves no doubt: Laibach require uncompromising action, they demand bravery and boldness and seek heroes “who will be the creed of a new political faith”. And, in one of the verses of this song, listeners can find a mini-‘manifesto’ about the album itself, its sonic expression, and the position of the group in relation to its own history.

In amongst these rallying calls from the band, sits a rare Laibach love song: We Are Millions And Millions Are One deals with love in today’s impossible times, times which are dangerously close to the fictional reality of classic anti-utopian novels such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (Мы), Laibach’s inspiration for this song.

Ending the album is the elegant utopian song Koran, a track that shows the possibility of a better and fairer world – on Earth or in the hereafter. Koran – which literally means ‘recitation’ (also another key Laibachian trait) –, of course, to some extent also refers to the series of uprisings, revolutions and wars in the Arab world that have been taking place in the past few years and which refuse to sink. Consequently, the album ends with the (in)complete, open, unfinished sound of a piano key...

The magnificent and serious, yet formally playful, fresh and provocative albumSPECTRE steps out of its own shadow and brings an array of new songs and ideas with which Laibach demonstrates that it masterfully manages its position and has now returned in grand style to the international scene.

Tracks:

Side A
1. The Whistleblowers
2. No History
3. Eat Liver!
4. Americana
5. We Are Millions And Millions Are One
Side B
6. Eurovision
7. Walk With Me
8. Bossanova
9. Resistance Is Futile
10. Koran
http://spectre.laibach.org
http://www.laibach.org/future-events