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This is the only album I own by Laibach and I like it a lot. There's some other stuff I've heard by them but I think this was their strongest album, from what I've heard. I only bought this because I saw it for $15 and I loved the song Tanz mit Laibach so I thought I'd give it a shot and it worked well in my favour.
The thing I like about this style of industrial is some of the songs almost have a minimal techno feel to it and, to me, that's pretty damn unique and makes this album stand out even more. Like I said before I love the track Tanz mit Laibach. It's one of those great anti-Nazi type marching songs. Good heavy beat with a kick ass bass line. I won't do a track by track review but the opening track, B Mashina is a great choral-industrial number that this group has been so great at doing before. The vocals kinda sound like he's reading from a que card but I can look past that and enjoy the music. My favourite track on this album is Du bist unser. It's fucking chill and yet not, if that makes sense. It's also very minimal techno sounding and I don't know what it is about it but as soon as this track hits I almost wanna get up and dance, which is not me at all!!!
Now You Will Pay is a pretty awesome track and I love the backing vocals tons. Seems to 50's sounding to me and I wish there was more of it on this album. The horns that come in at the end are nice too and creep the hell out of me. The last track on this album, Anti-Semitism, was mixed by two DJ's I never heard of and I love it though! Of all the songs this one is the most minimal techno sounding, yet it still keeps the industrial flavor in it, and I'm glad it's on this album. The looped string sample is beautiful! It ends the album with a lighter note and gets me off my ass to flip the record over and play it the album again.
This vinyl comes with a bonus track, Reject or Breed, and it's a pretty damn good track. It has a very Kraftwerkian feel to it. It sounds like it's a song about the band so the lyrics kinda suck. While listening to this album to do this review I noticed a lot of the songs have breathing samples in them and I have no idea why. Doesn't take away from anything but it might have been a bit over done.
8/10
