Spectre

The song structures have clearly absorbed a fair amount from EDM, but the formula of walloping percussion and synthesizers purloined from Depeche Mode's and New Order's darker moments, juxtaposed with lyrics that have the rung of obscure slogans, remains in place. [Mar 2014, p.58]

Those inimitable Laibach humours look set to endure. [Apr 2014, p.92]

One of the oddest albums you'll hear this year. [Apr 2014, p.113]

At times, Spectre does feel very much like a serious album, but the tone occasionally seems inconsistent.

It is sad that there isn't more music being made with this level of political engagement at its heart, but it is encouraging that Spectre exists.

This is actually their most enjoyable record in ages, largely because it draws together recurring Laibach themes. [May 2014, p.77]

Not all of Spectre is quite equal to 'The Whistleblowers'. There's the occasional functional interlude--standard-issue industrial synth propulsion. But, compositionally and sonically, Spectre is intriguingly accessible.

There’s a sense of exhaustion in Spectre, but it’s not an exhaustion with irony and a refuge in po-faced sloganeering. Rather, Laibach dramatise the exhausted nature of a political movement that seems unable to do anything other than follow the lines laid out for it by the social order it claims to oppose, or take refuge in a vague utopianism.