Laibach - Wat Posted by AlMachine on Monday, August 18, 2003 I wander if Laibach sit up at night, get drunk and go "that bloody Rammstein stole our sound and made all the money" then wander off and do something culturally a little odd and politically provocative. I actually quite like this album but it's pretty tough going to be arsed to listen to more than 30 seconds of each song as by then you know how the songs going to go. Basically Laibach have a particular sound, which is a slow, heavy industrial sound that's been touched by 90's dance here and there and there's a pile of growling vocals over the top. Oh and they've got more than a bit of a tendency to be so serious that it makes you wander if they're taking the piss. A lot like the aforementioned Rammstein but without the catchy pop hooks. ...and unfortunately it's all starting to sound a bit dated and they're still playing with the power/fascism stuff (there's a song called "Anti Semitism" on the album though the lyrics aren't in English so I don't know what there take is on it). A bit like Death In June, after a while you get a bit like "come on lads, maybe it's time to stop finding these taboos so terribly teenage shocking". A bit more interesting is the first track "B Mashina" which is more like a spoken word and filmic-soundtrack thing. You've still got to turn off your silly-button apparatus as they're always in danger of pressing it but don't worry by track 2 they're back on stomping industrial course and track 4 "Achtung!" could be a Rammstein (them again!) track, it's almost indistinguishable. Steve Prince