When a band has been around for 45 years, the word return usually comes out automatically. Dezerter avoid that trap entirely. 2026 marks their 45th year, but nothing about “Wolny wybieg” is built like a summary or a monument. It’s a forward-moving record, written in between concerts and recorded in autumn 2025 at The Boogie Town Studio in Otwock, with the same sense of urgency and a critical take on reality that’s been driving the band for decades.
Two years earlier, Dezerter put out the 7” EP “Żółć/Pomocne dłonie”. It quickly proved itself live and stayed in rotation on stage.
At the start of 2025, the band decided to stretch that energy into something bigger. Work on the album ran from February to October, and by the end of it eight songs had taken shape and made the final tracklist.
The first official glimpse came on January 12, 2026, when Dezerter released the title track “Wolny wybieg” as the album’s opening single, alongside a lyric video published on their DezerterTV YouTube channel. The full album, also titled “Wolny wybieg”, is scheduled for release on February 13, 2026 via Mystic Production.
Musically and structurally, the record stays close to what Dezerter have always done, but it’s not about repeating formulas. The band describe it as dynamic and raw, with clear attention paid to sound and composition. Lyrically, they focus on what they see as obvious truths, using them to comment on the chaos of the current world — a world shaped by lies, political manipulation, and large technology companies that actively play on social moods to multiply their own gains. There’s a sense of collapse hanging in the air, but instead of dramatizing it, Dezerter document it in plain language.
In our quick chat, the band explain that people once blamed stupidity on lack of access to knowledge. That excuse no longer holds. Knowledge is everywhere, they argue, but the resistance to using it has grown. People increasingly choose fast and simple answers over complex ones, and corporations built on clicks and traffic are happy to exploit that. What gets promoted is what’s popular, not what’s thoughtful. Quick, attractive nonsense wins over slow, demanding knowledge.
But the band don’t position themselves as saviours. They openly admit that the world won’t be fixed by one song or one album.
What matters more is stopping for a moment and asking who benefits from this collective laziness — and who ends up losing.
For Dezerter, “Wolny wybieg” is about a version of freedom that looks comfortable but turns out to be mostly an illusion. Control no longer comes through bans or visible restrictions. It arrives through algorithms, bundled neatly with convenience and a sense of safety. And somewhere along the way, it becomes easy to knock over your own table without even noticing when it happened.
That idea runs straight through the lyrics. Instead of shouting, the song points out how willingly people accept limits, how easily they stay inside spaces built to feel safe and familiar.
There’s no need for fences anymore; the systems that guide attention and behaviour do the job quietly. Corporations step into the role of digital caretakers, knowing habits, preferences, and weaknesses well enough to keep everyone inside their own bubble.
The song itself is relatively restrained. It moves at a steady, mid-tempo pace that leaves room for the words to stay in focus. The band note that this calmer approach makes it easier to follow the lyrics, and the sound can bring to mind early 1980s peace punk or modern post-punk, without stepping outside Dezerter’s established framework.
“Wolny wybieg” was written by the band’s long-standing core: music by Robert Matera, lyrics by Krzysztof Grabowski. The recording lineup consists of Robert “Robal” Matera on vocals and guitar, Jacek Chrzanowski on bass, and Krzysztof Grabowski on drums. The sessions were recorded by Paweł Marciniak, with the lyric video created by Marcin Halerz.
The album will be released on vinyl in several versions: a standard black edition priced at 100 zł, and two coloured variants — turquoise marbled and turquoise with splatter — priced at 115 zł. The cover artwork was prepared by Krzysztof Grabowski.
When you look closer, “Wolny wybieg” shows them doing what they’ve always done: observing how power changes shape, how control becomes comfortable, and how easily people learn to call that freedom.
Stay tuned for the full story told across all eight songs on this album. “Wolny wybieg” will be released in full on February 13, 2026, and the title track makes it clear this is a record meant to be taken as a complete narrative, not just a single statement.
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