Slovenian collective Laibach have announced details of a new album, MUSICK, their first studio album of original material since 2014’s Spectre. MUSICK – released on vinyl, CD and digitally on 1 May 2026 on Mute – finds Laibach simultaneously celebrating and playfully critiquing our present era of warped reality and gaudy AI copycatting with a collection ofundeniably 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: apathological devotion to music – “an obsession, a kind of drug” – which continues to drive Laibach in this era of oversaturation.
The album launches with ‘Allgorhythm’ in February, 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.
Now they lounched the second track, title song MUSICK, with the music video signed by a Remont.zone and directed and written by Morten Traavik.
The group took a maximalist approach while making the album in their Ljubljana studio. Surrounding themselves with every music-making artefact 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’s MUSICK is released on vinyl, CD and digitally on 1 May 2026 via Mute. (Info: MUTE)
Here are also a dates of 2026 Laibach tour, including Zagreb, 16 October in Boogaloo club.
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
2 July – Vinkuran/Medulin Riviera (HR), Cave Romane
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
