Krobak. The Diary of the Missed One.

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There is far not much of such music in Ukraine – meaning that it is officially released quite infrequently. On the one hand, this is natural – because large companies will hardly be able to earn from this sort of creativity. But on the other – it is abnormal and a pity. Because at present it is post-rock and things similar to it that seem to be one of major reasonable alternatives to pop-culture. This refers to the whole world – it is enough to just mention Sigur Ros, Mum or Moglass. And this happens because such music is not focused on épatage, it does not pursue any external objectives. It contemplates the world through immersion in itself – it offers to the audience to give up itself for the sake of contemplation and understanding, suggests losing outward emotions and discovering inward sensation. In contrast to other subcultures that refer to themselves as countercultures, it does not invent new symbols, does not need a uniform or unisexuality in its external displays. Such music is a symbol of unique perception of the world itself – because it induces to attentiveness and comprehension, and they are unique for everybody without exception. At some instant this sort of music simply divides the dense mass of the audience into a sum of separate selves – in order to reunite them later, but already at another level. Then this is no longer a crowd, then these are people... It is possible to say otherwise. In this music, beauty is dissolved – which you listen and hear staying alone with yourself, even if there is someone else around...

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)