дурной вкус (durnoy vkus) 3x
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.
думаешь ты (Do You Think, 2020)
Video by
Alberto Mendez, who added tourist film footage to the music.
From
светомузыка (2020); also check the
title track by Mendez.
Explicit lyrics, simple chords.
звук и темнота (Sound and Darkness, 2019)
Also on
#Winter Holidays. 9 Minutes Until the End of the Year (2019).
Also versions by
Krzysztof Utbult, with
animation (2020),
live (2020), and
slowed (2021).
Plus a guitar cover that begins with
I don’t speak Russian very well (2021).
пластинки (Records, 2018)
Приходи ко мне, слушать старые пластинки – come to me, listen to old records. Visuals by Alberto Mendez (2019), lyric version (2020) with translation, and a doomer version (2021).
Performed by Darya Shishkina (2020), Nikita Kostyaev (2020), and Evgeny Matykin (2020). Yunon Aur’s version says I don’t play guitar very well (2021). A clip teaser (1 min) in Post-Punk: Listening to Records (Kosmos, 2020), while the opposite extreme is one hour long.
Check out Vinyl in Russia (2020).
More
- Мяу!
- Висели вместе
- Kill Me (don’t worry, it’s in Russian)
Listen on
Apple Music,
Last.fm,
Spotify.
Bandcamp via
Sierpien Records.
See
VK.
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.
More
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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.
