Lucidvox 3x
Lucidvox (from Moscow) self-describes (on VK) as ‘psyched-out krautpunk, noisepop / lucidcore’. No men involved; four women – Anna, Alina, Galla, and Nadezhda – do the work. You may have seen them before. Lucidvox crosses borders more often than the average Russian band, even making it to our country.
They played in 2019 in Amsterdam ( OCCII), Rotterdam (WORM), and at Welcome to The Village in Leeuwarden. It looked something like this, though it probably sounded even better.
Беглец
Runaway (Беглец) is the second preview for an album later this year (2020), ‘We Are (мы есть)’.
The band mentions (on Facebook, June 29): «Runaway» is also a hint to what future album is going to be like, very personal, very unique, very indifferent. That last word seems like a translation glitch, but who cares.
Нож
The first (April 2020) is Knife (Нож).
Be sure to also check out Videnie / Dym (Видение / Дым), two in one (7 m). Also the title of the EP where these tracks are found. Also with Время прочь (2017).
Не ходи
From earlier (2015) is Не ходи (Don’t Go), from Омут.
Make Russian rock great again
An interview from 2017, back when Lucidvox was still a trio but with no fewer ambitions.
Reading: “Rusland is groot”: kennismaken met de New Russian Wave (Ruben van Dijk, Front 2019) and My Space, Your Space: Lucidvox Interviewed (Clash Music, 2019).
In Russian: interviews on Colta (2017) and Stanok (2017), see also The Village (2018) and Afisha (2017).
Listen on Bandcamp and Spotify.
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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1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
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The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
