Dakh Daughters. Air. /digi-pack/.

It is obvious that something extraordinary was expected from DD – so that it were different from the first album but not inferior to it. The girls have met the both expectations, this is a cool art-house piece, quite far from the "ordinary". "AIR" is no less conceptual or poetic than "IF". But more melodious, graceful, and flexible. It sounds like a well-assembled thread of beads – different in color, size and texture, but strung on a strong common basis in musical terms. Sure, the 14-minute track right in the middle of the album, "Pisnya pro te..." (The Song About That...), looks central – it is very much like homage to DakhaBrakha in general and to their album "The Road" in particular. But the key thing is that this is, perhaps, the deepest manifestation of their ability to "keep the pause" in the theatrical and in the musical sense at the same time, that kind of suspense on the extrema of the wave. Thus the space, the air – after all, it is "Air" – turn into a very important factor. The seemingly colorless color – but without it the entire picture with its sharp lines, wide strokes would simply suffocate, fade leaving the bare canvas behind. While here – we hear the space inhabited by bright and somewhat bizarre life..