![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Soviet aesthetics, you have something of your own that is ugly and at the same time neat and attractive. “This is something that’s difficult to explain. Could you expand a little bit about your attraction to that? You’ve said you’re fascinated by the Perestroika/mid-’80s style. “I use FL Studio 10 – yes, I’m old-fashioned! Pavel uses Ableton Live’s latest version.” Having delivered their third album, Monument, in late 2020, the band (vocalist Egor Shkutko, Roman Komogortsev on guitar, synths and drum machine, and Pavel Kozlov on bass and synths) will spend this autumn touring internationally and will be making their way around the UK and Ireland in November. And, as the likes of the New York Times have reported, on the basis of how many US TikTokkers have nicked this band’s tracks in order to bring a doomy or faux-portentous mood to their latest exploits (in particular, the widely streamed Sudno from their 2018 album Etazhi), the trio have certainly played their part in soundtracking the harrowing circumstances of their homeland in the past two years.ĭue to the imperfection of the equipment, it turned out to be very specialīut, partly through the necessities of legality (freedom of expression being notably limited in today’s Belarus), and partly because the band are both synth lovers and music history buffs, it’s often their new wave and Gorbachev-era, Soviet-harking music which carries much of that weight of tone. ![]()
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