WAT [ENHANCED]

Laibach

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 9, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B0000B1A4B
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #205,374 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. B Mashina - Laibach, Tomi Meglic

2. Tanz mit Laibach

3. Bist Unser

4. Achtung!

5. Ende

6. Now You Will Pay

7. Hell: Symmetry

8. Spiel Ist Aus

9. Satanic Versus

10. Great Divide

11. Wat

12. Anti-Semitism

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Wat is Laibach's first new album in 7 years, since 1996s Jesus Christ Superstars. 12 tracks of proto-industrial indifference from the Slovenian collective. Slipcase. Mute. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars !Tanz Mit Laibach!, October 26, 2003

By	"cyclopsoverdose" (seattle, United States) - See all my reviews

This CD is amazing! It sold out in a week from our local shop. Aside from the vocals the music itself sounds very little like old Laibach...there are still some choirs and orchestra bits, but most of that crap has been replaced by a 909, distortion pedal and Reaktor...it rocks! Stiff grizzly beats with minimalist synth basses and Laibach's trademark demonic vocals. Achtung is a standout but all the tracks are good...the CD also includes a video for Tanz Mit Laibach! Buy it. You won't regret it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real Laibach album, November 14, 2003

By	S. V. Bugaj (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having been a fan of Laibach since the 1980s, I am glad to see them returning to form. While albums like Nato and Jesus Christ Superstars had their moments, Laibach seemed on the verge of turning themselves into a novelty act with their (usually superior to the original, but still ridiculous) cover songs and mediocre forays into techno. Whatever happened to them in the last 7 years is a good thing, because Wat is an even more successful return to the form that made them brilliant than Front 242's rather successful Raw & Pulse recordings. There are no silly or disposable tracks on Wat. If Laibach tours the US for Wat and releases 10 more albums in their pioneering vein (but now with better production!), they'll easily make up for the torture of the Jesus Christ Superstars tour, the Also Sprach Johann Paul II project, and their 7 year hiatus from releasing new Laibach albums.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars buy it. buy it now., November 10, 2003

By	soze (downtown Albany, NY) - See all my reviews

Just got this from Mr. FedEx guy today. This does not sound like Nitzer Ebb, this does not sound like Rammstein, it sounds like Laibach. There is no other way to describe it. They have evolved past the guitar-heavy nonsense in 'Jesus Christ Superstars' and come up with something entirely new. I would not have it any other way. This is art at its purest: satirizing leftist and rightist agendas at once, occasionally with a dancy beat behind it.

Anyone using the word 'electroclash' to describe Laibach needs a kick in the head.