Taras Chubay, Kuzma Skryabin, Molotov 20. Nashi partysany. /cassette/. (Our Guerrillas)

This is, without exaggeration, a legendary album. And it was not even about the list of the project's authors.. The album was first released in 2000 – and it was perhaps the first collection of insurgents' songs in modern arrangements in Ukraine. And it still, in my opinion, remains the best one. Definitely a cool collection of the songs – but it's only half the story. The skillful arrangements – that's a fact (after all, back in the mid-1990s Chubay was already established as one of the best arrangement composers of the Ukrainian independent scene, and it was in his interpretations that a number of lyrics became really significant for Ukraine). But even that would probably not be enough – if not the voice of Taras Chubay. This is the case where everything came together – and when combined, it suddenly (?) generated something third, that's more than the sum of the components. An incredibly beautiful album – one listens to it once, twice, twenty times, and one keeps listening – and still it gives you creeps, and still something is caught in the eye and does not let it dry out...