The Notwist - News From Planet Zombie (CD)

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: MORRCD414
Barcode: 0880918820729
Release Date: 28 Mar 2026
Genre: Indie/Alternative

With ‘News from Planet Zombie’, The Notwist return to view after years of exploration and experiment with an album rich in both melancholy and positivity, sketched across a suite of thrilling, fiercely committed pop songs. It’s an album reflecting a chaotic world, but responding with warmth and generosity, to achieve creative and spiritual consolidation.

Recorded in their home base of Munich, it reconnects with the security of the local to explore the troubles of the global: a guiding impulse writ large across this album’s eleven songs. It’s also the first studio album since 1995’s ‘12’ that the entire band recorded together in the studio in its expanded live formation.

A new album by The Notwist is always a curious endeavor; their musical language is as consistent and resilient as the contexts for creativity are unpredictable and ever shifting. For ‘News from Planet Zombie’, the core trio of Markus and Micha Acher and Cico Beck embraced the plural possibilities of writing together, bringing songs to the collective and then arranging, rehearsing, and recording that material live, in the studio. The result is an album that’s energized, fully in ‘the now’, with spectacular moments where you can hear the magic bubbling up in the dynamic between the Achers, Beck, and fellow members Theresa Loibl, Max Punktezahl, Karl Ivar Refseth, and Andi Haberl.

TRACKLISTING:  01. TEETH 02. X-RAY 03. PROPELLER 04. RED SUN 05. THE TURNING 06. SNOW 07. SILVER LINES 08. WHO WE USED TO BE 09. HOW THE STORY ENDS 10. PROJECTORS 11. LIKE THIS RIVER