Simply Rock
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..there is much less boyish hooliganism, the characters have matured, sure, thus having lost something cloudless. And having gained something significant in return, it seems. At least, they have something to say and sometimes may even do that with a smile which now contains much more shades. What you will hear depends on yourself. 5'nizza opens various doors..
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The first studio album by 5 Vymir is like a rough mixture of the psychedelia of the 70s and the Brit pop of the 90s, inspired by our local dreamlike lifestyle, but flavored with a green, bouncy charge of sound (and it's not about sounding) insolence. It turns out to be very atmospheric..
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..this is a marker album and thoughtful preparation for the next step at least, it sounds like that. Indie rock in Ukrainian is still not the mainstream in Ukraine, but 5 Vymir is just one of those bands that are able to change this situation for the better there is enough musical and literary sense, charismatic manifestations, and they are not lacking ambitions. Let them just not stop..
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The author project by Serhiy Sakhno the drummer of the legendary VV. "Akapulko" presents a completely new musical style, "trip-twist", as well as an incredible mix of Ukrainian melodies, dynamic hard "rock'n'pop", and the bluesy psychedelia of the 60s combined with the highly fashionable today "new sound of Berlin"...
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The new album by Antytila was released unexpectedly quickly but the title "Sun" seems to imply that there was no need to wait, that the time came. Or were the new songs so much burning inside that one had to release them as soon as possible? However, the cover of "People Like Ships" by Skryabin here may indicate at something quite different
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It seems that Antytila have finally discovered and tamed their wave: the new album is almost entirely composed of "blockbusters" one imagines the picture where these songs sound at a stadium scale.
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Powerful, sated musical grenade, in which classical, pure rock borders on the Gothic sound and this is already good. But Valery Vlasenkos vocals are something really so deep, rare, genuine that one even gets surprised...
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..Eventually, the debut album by Arlett generally somehow avoids excesses, sticks to certain mainstream which, incidentally, has its zest. It is read as being without a mask, simple expression, a sort of a light conversation. Due to which, probably, there will be a chance and the will for a deeper conversation.
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In spite of the love and respect of the group participants for works by "Beatles" stated in the autobiography, this is not about copying, imitation and it is good. Perhaps, the only common feature is that the "Asymmetry of Emotions" also plays pop-rock. Maybe, with the prefix "indie". And, of course, very emotional.
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His audience is growing if not with the speed of a lightning, then incessantly. At that, in three directions simultaneously. One the listeners who came to love his own songs. Second the audience who keep track of his theatrical life (i.e. "Theater 19"). Third readers who value interesting poetry.
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A powerful work as expected. In terms of the music colorful, with interesting arrangements, careful consideration of each track. No "pass-through" pieces one can hear that. Voluminous, "visual" music it feels like you can touch it with your fingertips, taste, and inhale its aroma...
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It's nice when a musician has something to say. The value of what is said is not determined by its amount, of course, but more than 70 minutes of high-quality music that's still good. And Babkin produces quality both in his music, in lyrics.
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Babkin manages to avoid profanity: his music had became lighter, but not primitive, the lyrics have become more concise but have not slipped into nonsense (besides for the first time! all songs of the album are in Ukrainian), in the end, the scale of the artist has changed, which is perceived in the way it is presented.
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...this is about us. The ordinary people in the changing times, when it is both scary, and funny, and one wants to go faster, while one needs to move carefully. Because nobody but us will live through these times for u... That's how it is put in the song "Play!": "Dad taught me my dad, the last Jedi play, play on your drymba, play the song of joy..."
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...A sort of an album of ballads. If you do not listen attentively it seems very balanced. But when you are attentive that is when the second bottom opens: it is an album of deep feelings, bright experiences and, at the same time, quiet reflections. Not speculations on a topic, but exactly individual reflections.
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Well, here is finally the long-expected album by the new "Boombox" new in the aspect of sounding. The trick is that this is material recorded in a rock manner. For this reason the work has the name "All Inclusive" because everything is done here with the help of "live" instruments, and in particular at participation of a real rhythm section.
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The new album by Boombox is another very significant reason to mention the year 2011 as one of the most yielding years for the non-ordinary Ukrainian popular music. No doubt despite the title, "Middle Age", no crisis is in question here. On the contrary.
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Something is changing inside. The feeling is as if Andriy Khlyvnyuk submerges much deeper now, and peers much closer, and than suddenly opens up and appears probably even defenceless, vulnerable and because of that, however strange that may be, stronger. Even if it is painful. And this movement is there.
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"People" is a work small in size, but rich in content. From heavy teen romance to some serious generalizations only possible when having gained experience. From quite intimate reflections to civil pathos. And in terms of the sheer sound, it turns out diverse.
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Regarding songs by Boombox, it has always been interesting to listen to the lyrics among other things, due to their disposition to (and the ability of) playfulness. But the further, the less verbal balancing they contain but more poignant senses, refined formulas, comprehensive observations. The new (mini)album "Naked King" is a very vivid evidence of that..
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The main thing is that this music is not committed to a certain style, but rather to a certain brand, a quality of expression. So, if for the sake of this quality one needs to add some atypical colors it happens in an easy and natural way. Such a cool simplicity. At the same time it is a team play, in which no one pulls the blanket over himself.
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In fact, this album is a folder containing two debut pieces at once. The main one from the WhaTsup project, while another third of the volume is their side project "Fekaladka". Well, Kharkiv musicians like doing it differently from the rest thus, the title of the album can be viewed as banter...
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As far as we know this is the first album in Ukraine (at least, among officially released ones) dedicated to bikers. Dedicated not only formally, but also thematically. However, the disc "Biker Sich" has been released just recently but it was a collection of favorite songs, not the author's dedication album. A significant difference.
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Strange as it may appear, but youll find a good deal of novelties on the disc the songs that have never been released before. And personally I consider them to be just wonderful songs. Anyway, the famous works also warm the heart. This is like it often happens with cronies whose close relationship doesnt depend on circumstances. All this makes not a compilation but an album of a full value with incredibly crystal, lyrical and high spirits.
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This is simultaneously the simplest and the most complicated format there is nothing but the guitar and voice, and you either sound or you'd better not even start... "Acoustics" is the last real album by Vasyl Gontarsky, the fifth one. No others will follow. If everyone left behind so fair traces the land would shine under our feet...
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An anniversary (10 years since the release) re-issue on CD of one of the most prominent Ukrainian rock albums. For the sake of this release, complete re-mastering of the material from the original master tapes was performed and the original author design was restored.
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..The key issues covered in the texts are the request for people to have trust in their power, to help people around, to value beloved ones, to smile at every day, to learn from old mistakes, and most importantly to be themselves.
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...this music has its own face, and it, which is good, can hardly be characterized with just one term. Yes, the sounding is characterized by soft lyricism this could be usual pop-rock unless sometimes it did not swing, say, to the jazz palette...
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The new disk combines songs about a variety of facets of our life there is blues and loneliness, exciting gospel and sex, punk and showing off, trip-hop and anger, poignant tango and war. The world is changing every day, dogmas keep replacing each other, but we hope...
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..it seems that they are about that all of us once came out of water of the World Ocean. Our paths converge, diverge, interrupt, go on, intertwine and sometimes it is love, while sometimes confrontation. But always(!) there is something in common for all of us..
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Yuriy Zdorenko & Hash spin up and in quite an unexpected way. Actually, what could seem after release of their debut mini-album? That Zdorenko decided to cook another poignantly hot dish based on the recipe tested in the "Borsch" project. And what actually turns out?
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Just rock. Lyrical, young, sometimes dreamy but, the main thing, honest. One never stops being surprised that during the recent years appearance of this sort of groups has become really rare therefore one is happy to see every fresh figure. The more so when, as in the case of Znak Vody, everything develops harmoniously.
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The very first sounds with which this disc starts inspire quite a stable association with rock music of the 1960s and 1980s actually, a pleasant association. But and this is also pleasant the style palette of the album is varied and saturated enough. That is, this is rock, in which there is roll, and hard, and art, and atmospheric poetry and just poem...
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..when everything is good, nothing is left to do but just listen. With outstanding which also matters pleasure. This is the case when pop music is made so differently compared to most of the customary Ukrainian pop music that.. one can only express sincere gratitude.
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And it is difficult to clearly define what the thing is, why exactly these songs warm you but there lurks behind the external simplicity a sort of correct filling unobtrusively, as a rain at night in summer...
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A new CD has got a title "The Way" not by accident: this name corresponds to the content of the album and to its mood. The road, journeys, nature, love
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Some of these songs could be heard at Foma's performances back in 2014. Time flies, sure now there are more of them. Because the theme remains unchanged the war, which came about then, lasts as of the eve of 2018, when the album is finally released. The country is painfully transforming itself. The price is loss of illusions, inoculated so long ago and so deeply...
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In the sphere of music, the group has developed and deepened the stylistics set with the album "There Is Hope" thus, drive has became a bit less hard, but in some respect even more powerful, plastic. But there is also another aspect.Vadym Krasnooky becomes forgive my loose definition a lyrically-cheerful philosopher, and this does impress.
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...their second album "The Circus of Flowers" sounds much more balanced and serious, and in many other ways different. Stylistically, it is still based on blues-rock, and even with little insertions of reggae, ska, etc, this is the same band. The Mechanical Orange remains itself.
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...the album again suggests the idea that the war for independence of Ukraine that started dozens of years ago lasts till now. And now even more than ever before it is opposition of identities because external, political and geographic independence is worth nothing unless it is founded on internal freedom. To quote the song "...to be oneself and to be proud".
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Motor'rolla, disregarding obstacles, has managed to make a step ahead in quality it seems that right now the group has finally found its real sounding, has reached a sort of their own standard. This is important because, having such a work in one's reserve, it is possible to freely experiment in any direction. Durable foundation is there.
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"NedaremnO" tries to sound different. Not too "trimmed" and it has its advantages, because lack of syrup makes the taste much more honest. There is some special drive that young groups had in abundance 10 to 20 years ago, but which many of the current "novices" often lack.
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"Frankly speaking, seventy percent of our songs I like much more in this variant then in album versions. Especially Divchyna" (S. Vakarchuk, leader of OE)
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May be, for the sake of that it was worth while changing the group members with the exception of Guru, of course. Now it is interesting what will happen next. Because judging by ears to be continued.
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Mastering of this release was performed in the USA, in the studio of the legendary sound producer Bob Ludwig, whose experience during the almost half-a-century career includes work with over 1200 musicians. This mastering was born at the height of "Dolce Vita Tour" in 2010 and as brightly as possible it conveys the integral, bright sound of the live concert performance.
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The first album of nowadays well-known Ukrainian group is in front of you. By the way, for the first time the glory has knocked to them due to a song "Tam, de nas nema"...
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This group represents Ukrainian rock'n'roll music of today. It is popular in Ukraine and in Russia by its drive music, strong, unusual vocal, own style. This is their second album. Their style has slightly changed according to modern music tendencies.
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Pay attention at the title of the album it displays its content and its essence very well. The composition of the album and every of its songs, as well as their forms and content, strive to logical harmonicity, adjustedness of every musical move, every note.
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...the quality of the album yes deserves compliments. May be, for the sake of that it was worth while changing the group members with the exception of Guru, of course. Now it is interesting what will happen next. Because judging by ears to be continued.
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.. There is no pursuit for the sake of acknowledgement and there is no temptation of observing style limitations, but there is the ability to make it maximally as exact as you consider necessary. Sheer rock music grows from this root, creativity not for the sake of freedom, but as its direct result.
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"Opium" honestly searches for its own rock language in texts and in music, and this is nice. In our opinion, "Opium" plays simple classic rock and this, you should agree, is not that easy. Besides, the song lyrics do not resemble a simple set of rhymes and meter at all the experience lived through, live thoughts and feelings are obviously inlaid into these words.
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It's nice that there are still bands that undertake performing just rock, without flirting with unclear definitions of style, without the pop aplomb or pretended mystery. And the cello as part of it does not interfere. Just honest music, straight and simple (but not empty) lyrics you know, not that much is needed...
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...the sound appears really clear, light, and sometimes almost fragile. Actually, it is possible to compare because, in addition to new songs, you'll find here several songs from the previous album "In You". This is not yet homely comfort but this is not desperate thunder of large scenes either, definitely.
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..a whole bunch of musicians joined that, including Rock-H, Motor'rolla, Pan Pupets, Sashko Polozhynsky and in this way a complete cover album of songs from the repertoire of 1992-2015 was formed. It turned out interesting because the versions often sound quite unexpectedly, and because Pavlik personally contributed into the recording, so all together it is also an album of duets.
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The first thing that catches the eye is the musicians' regard to the pop rock aesthetics of the 1980's and the 2000's. It's not about copying as such but this almost-retro flavor works as a properly selected spice: it helps to open up the base. Well, and the base is the ability to create good melodies and expressive arrangements..
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To say that Pianoboy has pleased us with his debut work it means to say not enough. I do not know who has been expecting for what though after Okean Elzy, Esthetic Education and Zemfira one could hardly seriously anticipate a failure? but I suspect that the album will surpass most expectations
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..intertwining love for the music of the 1960-70s, and the ability to speak modern, at the intersection of styles. With the taste for styling tricks to speak one's own language. Actually, Pianoboy manages to combine in one bottle magnitude and seclusion, intimacy.
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Pomaranch is the energy of colour. It is a cheerful, fresh, flexible, hot, not completely fluid, but quite a pellucid energy.
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..In musical terms, this is clearly stemming from what Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Donovan, and others were doing some long time ago. Stemming from but not copying, it is just that in Postman's songs there are the same ease and the content that make it possible to anticipate the extra depth, without any prejudice to the beauty.
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Postman reserves the right, being a participant of certain events, to step into the shadow behind the light boards and become an observer. A light man. The one who asks: why? at what price? what for? The one who answers: in the turmoil of trifle things, in random intersections, in uncertain movements of our hearts we remain ourselves..
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It was planned that this disc would only be sold at concerts, but now "Freakish Power" can encounter us anywhere and anytime, and this is incredibly good. Another fragrant brick for Podillya foundation... I sincerely advise you to cast away umbrellas and the rest of protection means otherwise there is the risk of just failing to contain.
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The "Radioheaven" project is a good example of rock music created just for the love of the process, not for any mercenary considerations. Thus, there is no cheap epatage, adolescent humor and disregard for detail in the sounding. While there is a quest for their own path, self-respect and, at the same time, self-irony.
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In terms of the sound, one would call this album, quite unexpectedly, ... a collection of romantic songs. The manner of performance, the melody pattern are somewhat reminiscent of Ukrainian "vocal and instrumental ensembles" of the 1970s-80s: there was in that music a sort of sunshine, innocent, trusting openness to the world. Here the same.
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It would seem that with such a title one should expect from the album if not pink tears with ruffles then, in any case, some average ballads. But "Rock-H" from the very beginning stood out against the background, and this time, too, they do not disappoint.
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Although musicians of the group define their style as pop rock we should note that "rock" here weighs obviously more than "pop". To the extent that in the sounding of "Role Model" it is possible to discover, for example, elements of punk rock in the American style...
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This album was about to become the third work of the band 5'nizza but unfortunately, while working at the album the musical concept was changed so much that the group broke up. Nevertheless, on the basis of it there appeared a new project the front man of which is Andriy Sun Zaporozhets. So the name of it derived from the leader's one.
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"Skryabin" group has changed it's style several times. Punk, new-wave, neo romantic. At the same time, musicians never loose their face. Skryabin songs are always cognate and a big army of funs like it.
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This is relatively light music but on each album by Skryabin there are always songs on social topics. And sometimes so serious and poignant that it hurts although externally they, without unnecessary showing off, may look humorous, or quite simple, or sentimental...
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It is nice that Skryabin constantly improves its sound, makes it more refined and, so to say, live. "Natura" is modern lyric, with fine music arrangements and general harmoniousness of the album as a whole. Some personal, intimate things are represented here a bit unusually, very simply but, surprisingly, intimacy is not lost, and even vice versa.
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Death cannot attribute meaning if it was not there from the start. But it may highlight some senses and rearrange accents I think that in the case of songs by Scriabin this will be going on for many more years..
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...a semi-acoustic recording that allows one to fully experience the inner poetics of the space. The guitar, percussion, bass, occasionally keyboards well, and, sure, singing (complemented with recitative). Actually, one does not need anything more at least, one does not perceive any shortage.
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Maximally simple, clear concept the acoustic guitar plus singing. And it means that lyrics come to the first plan and, believe me, they are worth being listened to attentively, and not once.
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And we will hear the music that is quite rare today in Ukraine pure rock. Clear rhythms and texts not deprived of the existential, firm guitar turns and energetic male vocal yes. This is just the color that has been recently lacking in the variety of Ukrainian music, and its a pity.
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Thus, there are no sophisticated constructions, flirting with the public, theatrical gestures here but there is simple, and thus strong rock music. And there are the lyrics probably, not too sophisticated, but thus no less meaningful. Because, in the end, one of the key features of "Trans-Former" has been and still is honesty.
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This time "Fayno" once again offer their own lyrics and songs based on poems by such interesting and distinguished authors as Lazutkin, Lyubka, Honchar, Kiyanovska, Moskalets, etc. These interpretations are always interesting to listen to at least, because the accents sometimes sound very different...
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The first thing I noticed when I started playing the album was that I was intently listening to the lyrics. It's nice because it does not happen that often. This is important because not only the sound matters, because semantic vibrations also weigh, and emptiness is very different from pauses. Moreover, one immediately notices the quality..
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"Fiolet" traditionally offers listening to not only pleasant music, but also smart, witty lyrics. About what is and what will be. About that everything passes. About that everything changes and remains invariably-incomprehensibly-incredible. Even when it hurts. However...
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What has changed since the release of this album? It immediately strikes that the sound of Fiolet has become noticeably heavier and this, along with the rather significant insertions of electronics, creates a slightly different background for perception of the lyrics. Not that it is more aggressive, but there is a nuance..
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At first glance YouCrane just perform quality pop-rock with a variety of electronic admixtures. But, as known, the devil is in detail to which the band definitely pays a lot of attention. Therefore, that results in a rather peculiar and interesting atmosphere, in which the positive charge does not block the sun for indie moods.
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The second album by YouCrane clearly shows that the band has found its own voice, and that this voice is easy distinguished from the crowd. A certain very nice mix of romance with a touch of the 1980s, latent lo-fi-aesthetics, healthy carelessness in intonations all of those create a new fairy tale atmosphere..
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