Spectre

"Many of the tracks included here are songs about revolution and changing the world, but would anyone actually use this music as revolutionary ammunition? They're not exactly protest songs; they're too abstract and cold to be described as such, but they are songs about protest. There are sweeter moments too, such as optimistic closing track Koran, and love song We Are Millions And Millions Are One, but in the context of the rest of the album it's difficult to take them all that seriously. Perhaps the fact of the matter is that Laibach take protest more seriously than protest takes itself".

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"The stiffly prefabricated industrial-dance grooves that Laibach habitually fall back on don't quite cut it any more, and without a monolithic state to serve as the object of their satire, they're reduced to mocking political fatuity. The result is sometimes all but indistinguishable from what they're mocking. A lot of Spectre's lyrics are meaningless up-with-the-people sentiments like "We're rising higher/ Come don't look back now/ Let's reach the stars" or "If you wanna change the world/ You'd better do it with a thrill/ 'Cause if you don't no one else will," or equally meaningless intimations of disaster, as when Fras and a synth choir declare "Europe is falling apart" in "Eurovision"".

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