Nova Akropola

Laibach | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B000001JRB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #502,677 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Vier Personen

2. Nov Akropola

3. Krvava Gruda-Plodna Zemlja

4. Vojna Poema

5. Ti, Ki Izzivas (Outro)

6. Die Liebe

7. Drzava

8. Vade Retro

9. Panorama

10. Decree

Editorial Reviews

UK limited edition digipak reissue of the Eastern European industrial experimentalist's 1985 album includes the bonus enhanced track, 'Laibach Film' (a rare four minute promotional video available for the first time). 2002. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An intimidating but challenging masterpiece, January 12, 2001

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Daniel R Barnett (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nova Akropola (Audio CD)

I discovered Laibach's NOVA AKROPOLA by accident many years ago at a record store in Dallas, where I played a little bit of the CD just for curiosity's sake. I bought it immediately. This is probably the best work that the Slovenian ensemble has to offer.

This CD is definitely not for everyone - Laibach blends elements of industrial, avant-garde classical, and military music to produce compositions that sometimes defy classification altogether. The title track is easily one of the scariest, rivaled by VADE RETRO and VOJNA POEMA. Anthems such as DRZAVA and DIE LIEBE help counterbalance the CD. The lyrics are in Slovenian and German, but English translations are printed on the CD insert.

I highly recommend this CD. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Were I a dictator... this would be my theme music, January 7, 2000

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Justin Ratcliff "egovirus" (S.Pasadena, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nova Akropola (Audio CD)

This album cracks me up. It's brilliant in that it almost sounds like propaganda music for some right wing dictatorship. Some of the tracks are downright disturbing. That is VERY hard to capture in audio. If I were a serial killer, this would be my background music. Deffinately worth a listen, because let's face it, you didn't just stumble in here. Did you.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly brillant, March 19, 1999

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[e-mail] (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nova Akropola (Audio CD)

Laibach at its slowest, darkest, most symphonic and most extreme at the same time. No other Laibach release (and most of there are classics in their won right) comes even close to this masterpiece. Features Milan's most brutal vocal performance ever.