TапОК – Every Day is Winter
Misery. At least for those who don’t like winters and Mondays. Каждый день зима: every day is winter. Каждый день понедельник: every day is Monday. That’s how время без тебя (time without you) is, and оно меня убивает (it’s killing me).
And then, the холодильник (fridge) and the кошелёк (wallet) are also пустой (empty).
From
Гроза Танцполов, released in 2017.
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Recent (2020) is the album Кончало. Listen via Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube (Playlist). Кончало is also the title of a slightly curious 1-minute clip from 2018 (explicit everything). From 2019 and quite different is ДРД (DRD), with hearts and I Love You’s.
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
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Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but also distinctly idiosyncratic. The music is usually accessible (we categorize it under Pop), but the attitude is rock.
Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
The word offret is Swedish and means ‘sacrifice’; the band Offret is Russian and makes heavy music. The link between the word and the band: a
1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
