GOGOL BORDELLO
WE MEAN IT MAN - CD
UPC: 020286246503
Label: CASA GOGOL
Format: CD
Release Date: February 13, 2026
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We Mean It, Man! is out on February 13, 2026 via Casa Gogol Records. Gogol frontman and spiritual figurehead Eugene Hutz calls it the band’s “post punk revenge.” The album was co-produced by Nick Launay, whose 40+ year run of musical partners reads like the Great Canon of avant-teasing rock: Idles, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Public Image Limited, Gang Of Four, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Nick worked alongside Adam “Atom” Greenspan (Nick Cave, Idles, Refused, Amyl and The Sniffers).
A 2023 collab with Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order, and the Hacienda fame) inspired the move towards some loops, gated drums, and bass-driven post-punk grooves. “Everything that inspired Gogol Bordello — punk , hardcore, techno – can be traced back to the post punk playground, that’s really where all brilliant cross pollinations took place. Gypsy music in addition, is a renegade universe of its own
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The title track, “We Mean It, Man!” sounds like Turnstile with violins – dancefloor killing at its best. Another solid point of entry is “Ignition”, which the band had code named “Blue and yellow monday.” You can figure out why. If you want to hear the musical fruits of Eugene’s love of techno made dangerously current, check out “Mystics.” The sounds here are massive, orchestral. Joining the band for the recording of this album is new guitarist Leo Mintek (ex-Outernational) and synth wizard and accordion goddess Erica Mancini. The musical animal – the hybrid beast – keeps growing new tails.
TRACK LIST:
- We Mean It, Man!
- Life Is Possible Again
- No Time For Idiots
- Hater Liquidator
- Boiling Point
- Ignition
- From Boyarka to Boyaca
- Mystics
- We Did Good With The Good We Did
- Crayons
- State Of Shock
- Solidarity (Nick Launay Mix)
