Sami Svoji. Chomu vnyz? (Why Down?)

Compared with the first one, the second album by the group "Sami Svoi" seems stronger, more balanced. Besides, the leader of the group Oleg Suharev, as the author of lyrics, absolutely does not avoid naturalism – in the sense that quite considerable pieces of our actual reality are built into his texts. Not too beautiful one, honestly speaking. Possibly, this is the effect of that Oleg Suharev is currently one of the most noticeable bards of the new generation – thus, he is an expert in writing on pungent, burning topics. Actually, look through the list of songs in the album – their names are quite eloquent. But "Sami Svoi" is still not the bardic song. Rather, urban rock with admixtures of folk and punk, with sharp electricity in sounding, protuberant bass, somewhat nervous violin, mockingly phlegmatic saxophone. On the whole, possibly, the music constituent is even not as difficult as it could be (although one could hardly refer to it as too simplistic either), but in this case this is a justified step. The main emphasis was on the texts. Thus, the music must correctly emphasize senses – and it managed that well.