Unsound has announced the dates and theme for its 2021 event. Set to return to Kraków, Poland between October 13th-17th, the theme for this year is dəəp authentic, a "response to a hyperreal situation as parts of the world begin to transition into a new phase, in which many are vaccinated and our year-plus-long immersion in virtual living is raising new questions." According to the festival, dəəp authentic also refers to the "gradual shift back from online to IRL events, a phrase that involves a questionable binary - for the online world is also ‘real’, and the IRL has long been digitised, distributed and mediated."