German Engineering

"We recorded nearly 26 tracks of guitar for the new album. It makes for a much bigger sound over all, don't you think?"

This quote originates from here and is related to how Richard explained using 24 layers in Links 2 3 4 from THIS interview.
Richard told Guitar Player that he personally layered 24 guitar tracks on the song: eight low register, eight higher register and eight heavily downtuned. A contemporary Guitar World interview with Richard and Paul separately refers to "nearly 26 tracks of guitar" used for Mutter, probably describing the same unusually dense layering process. One possible explanation is Richard's 24 overdubs plus additional +2 Paul tracks, but the latter is not explicitly stated.

And this is where the wording "for the new album" is misleading. I don't think it means: "Across all eleven songs, we used a 26 layer method." It much more likely means: "During the making of this new album, we did this ridiculous thing involving near 26 guitar tracks." Because Richard's detailed version actually tells us Links was an exception. That "for example" does imply he did other extravagant guitar layering elsewhere (which may be lesser numbers like 12 or 6 etc), but it does not imply every song got 24/26 layers.