Gogol Bordello

The new Gogol Bordello album, We Mean It, Man! is out on Feb 13, 2026. Frontman Eugene Hutz calls it the band’s “post punk revenge.” We Mean It, Man! was co-produced by Nick Launay, whose 40+ year run of musical partners includes Idles, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Public Image Limited, Gang Of Four, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs(he did the one with “Heads Will Roll” on it. Dude is the Quincy Jones of the underground). And Adam “Atom” Greenspan (Nick Cave, Idles, Refused, Amyl and The Sniffers). We know you’ve heard the party line about how Gogol are the best “Gypsy punk” of all time and while we are not here to argue that, we’d like to offer a different platter: this isn’t folk music by any means. And Gogol has never been a folk band. A post-modern punk collage with a touch of orchestra pit class, perhaps. In fact, if you’ve been following the group’s joyride through the fringes of punk, hard core, classical, romani, dub, and Madchester, you’ll hear all manner of modernistic synths and loops on their seminal Gypsy Punks, the record they recorded with Steve Albini (RIP) way back in 2005. Go back even further and check the security film at underground rave shops in NYC like Liquid Sky circa 1997 and you’ll see Hutz regularly copping 12”s from Atari Teenage Riot and Goldie for his DJ nights. And so the band’s evolution here marks a reverse archeological dig, ya hear? The swashbuckling continues. Bring your best shoes and we’ll see you out on the dance floor.