Music

Three from Дурной Вкус (Durnoy Vkus), which means bad taste (see synonyms, Reverso, and Akademik). It is also the Russian title of Bad Taste (1987), the debut film by Peter Jackson. A band from Saint Petersburg, the music is tasty, but a bit on the cold side.

Misery from Smolensk (= Смоленск) on the Dnieper River. At least, that’s where Горемыка (Goremyka) comes from, a name meaning something like a wretch or failure (see Академик, поискслов, Wiktionary). Dark language or страшные звуки (scary sounds) are no surprise then, but it’s all на русском (in Russian), and that works well here.

As little as there is to be found about Окружающий Мир (The World Around), there’s just as little to report. Virtually nothing. And there wasn’t much to choose from either. It was Танцуй со мной (Dance with me) or nothing. Well then.

A trio from Minsk, Belarus. Where lately a lot of bad news has been coming from – and music that also doesn’t always sound cheerful. Still, Molchat Doma (Молчат Дома, Silent Houses) is worth a listen. Especially if you’re a fan of new or 80’s wave (now called postpunk or coldwave), and if you could appreciate Ploho.

Surely many good things come from Novosibirsk. Although, for example, vlogger Varlamov is not very positive about some parts of it. Novosibirsk is for the sad ones ( для грустных), in Novosibirsk is hell ( ад в Новосибирске). From that city also comes Ploho, the Anglicized spelling of плохо, which means bad. Only the word, not the band. The band may sound cold to some, but it’s certainly not plócha.

Captain hates the sea, that’s how the band name translates. Kapitan Nenavidet Morje. A band from Череповец or Cherepovets, with more info via the links below. Starting with a suggestion to stop smiling, and that sounds good.