Laibach - Wat
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Free Music Review: Better and better....
Hit: 5 Stars
Music from the group Laibach is just gettin better with every album, and for me this one is their best, by far. My favorite song is their industrial version of B-masina (a cover song, originaly from Siddharta), also the whole album is filled with others strong and rythmical songs.... oh, just can't wait to go to their concert in Ljubljana(Laibach)...Free Music Review: Pleasantly Suprised
Hit: 5 Stars
After a 7 year hiatus and a few albums that were not their best, Laibach has come back. I didn't know what to think when I saw this at the record shop down the street but was really happy once I got it home. Highly recommended.Free Music Review: Laibach-Kunst-Maschine
Hit: 5 Stars
Monumental. Musically, a definite must-have for old school EBM fans, nuff said.
Industrial dance music is still very much alive opposed to recent music, under the term, claiming more influence from trance and techno.
Free Music Review: fails to do anything innovative, just like I'd hoped
Hit: 4 Stars
WAT arrived in my music collection over a year ago and has enjoyed more or less constant CD changer time ever since.
Picture a dancier Opus Dei, or perhaps a more ominous Let it Be, and you'll have some idea what's going on here. It's as if the whole alpine aesthetic that was discarded for Kapital, NATO, and Jesus Christ Superstars (their creative nadir, I think most fans would agree, and an obvious attempt to cash in on the whole mid-90's industrial metal thing, the ONLY time they've ever done anything involving trends other than setting them)has returned, mutated to incorporate the techno aesthetic of their mid-period stuff, as well as the omnipresent foreshadowing of doom of their most recent work. Not that I don't agree with their assessment.
B-Maschina is the only cover, and since I don't know the original and doubt anyone else will either, it barely counts as such, and is, like every other cover they've ever done, distinctly Laibach. It's easily my favorite song on the album. Just try to get the chorus out of your head.
The rest of the album is also excellent. Tanz Mit Laibach is an obvious appeal to the goth/industrial DJs of the world (with its DAF-pastiche stomp), as is much of the album. Overall, it's not quite as good as some of the classic material from the late 80's, but compare it to the recent work of the roughly contemporary Front Line Assembly, and its easy to see who still has some artistic integrity. WAT stacks up nicely against anything in its genre being done today, including the utterly brilliant new offerings from fellow industrial dinos Skinny Puppy, Front 242, and Klinik. This really is a great time to be an electronic music fan; even Kraftwerk have had a reasonably credible new offering.
If you are a fan, you already own this, if not, you can feel comfortable about purchasing it if you're curious about the band and want to know what they're about. It's a great bridge to the somewhat more inscrutable (but ultimately more rewarding) early to mid period stuff like Opus Dei and Let it Be, and almost accessible enough to be given to Rammstein fans...
Free Music Review: we are time - the end or a digest?
Hit: 4 Stars
Mixed feelings about this one. The (important) downside is that Laibach has hardly done anything musically on this album on their own (look at the credits and see Umek et.al. most of the time+ Tanz Mit Laibach = DAF "Mussolini"+ does its really take like 7 years to make?). However, the overall impression is very strong and "zi meesidz iz klier". Many quotes/references to their previous work which leads to ask whether this is a goodbye or a synopsis or a lack of something new to say.(???)Keep wondering. I stick(sadly) with the goodbye. 4 stars nonethesless and a definite 5 on the background of everything else that is happening in contemporary music.P.S. Please, no Rammstein comparisons. If you do compare, please just remember the following few things:
1) Laibach is not German and Laibach is not a nazi group (as opposed to Rammstein's all too obvious flirtations)
2) Rammstein came way after Laibach
3)Laibach are no industrial or "heavy metal". They make concept albums that are much more diverse, mixed in musical style, much more political , philosophical or satirical than anything Rammstein would ever imagine to incept.