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poptimistsGetting one last one in before everyone (myself included) disappears for the hols -- t.A.T.u.'s latest single, the EXCELLENT Snegopady:
(A video is supposed to be imminent/already out, but it hasn't hit their official YouTube channel yet, anyway. So audio-only it is for now!)
I only remembered to go looking for their new album last week (it was out in Russia in October, and is supposed to be available internationally as digital-only on iTunes and Amazon), and had planned to hold off posting about it until a future full international release -- but sod it, there's no indications of when/if this may happen at this point anyway. Who needs patience, eh?
I may only have been listening to it for half a week, but it's already a solid contender for my top 20 albums of the year -- I dare say it's their best yet, or at least the one best suited to my tastes! I was delighted to find the remixes on the Beliy Plaschik ep were as much of an indication of the sound of the upcoming album as the singles (as posted here); the above, for instance, is almost a perfect amalgam of the No Mercy and Plant of Nothing remixes. They've really embraced the electro much more fully on this one, and a lot of it has an even darker edge than Dangerous and Moving. (This YT channel has the entire album streamed, btw, for the interested.)
Some further favourites off the album:
Chelovechki: contains some impressively energetic melodic acrobatics, that chorus is a STUNNER
Running Blind: there's something very desolate about the sound of this one, in the best way possible
Fly on the Wall: this one wins the pop hook stakes on the album hands down; furthermore, it has these amazing, massively dense and heavy synths in the chorus, that would make me go "ooh, dubsteppy", entirely arbitrarily I thought -- until I figured out WHY. (Nb linked track: one of my top 5 favourite dubstep choons of the year. NOT A BAD COMPARISON TO BRING FORTH, THERE.)
Vremya Luny: poss you need an inner goth (or inner metalhead!) to fully appreciate this one, haha -- either way it is relentless and awesome, and would 10 years ago totally have been shelved under "industrial". :D (How great is it that this gets away with counting as pop these days?)
(A video is supposed to be imminent/already out, but it hasn't hit their official YouTube channel yet, anyway. So audio-only it is for now!)
I only remembered to go looking for their new album last week (it was out in Russia in October, and is supposed to be available internationally as digital-only on iTunes and Amazon), and had planned to hold off posting about it until a future full international release -- but sod it, there's no indications of when/if this may happen at this point anyway. Who needs patience, eh?
I may only have been listening to it for half a week, but it's already a solid contender for my top 20 albums of the year -- I dare say it's their best yet, or at least the one best suited to my tastes! I was delighted to find the remixes on the Beliy Plaschik ep were as much of an indication of the sound of the upcoming album as the singles (as posted here); the above, for instance, is almost a perfect amalgam of the No Mercy and Plant of Nothing remixes. They've really embraced the electro much more fully on this one, and a lot of it has an even darker edge than Dangerous and Moving. (This YT channel has the entire album streamed, btw, for the interested.)
Some further favourites off the album:
Chelovechki: contains some impressively energetic melodic acrobatics, that chorus is a STUNNER
Running Blind: there's something very desolate about the sound of this one, in the best way possible
Fly on the Wall: this one wins the pop hook stakes on the album hands down; furthermore, it has these amazing, massively dense and heavy synths in the chorus, that would make me go "ooh, dubsteppy", entirely arbitrarily I thought -- until I figured out WHY. (Nb linked track: one of my top 5 favourite dubstep choons of the year. NOT A BAD COMPARISON TO BRING FORTH, THERE.)
Vremya Luny: poss you need an inner goth (or inner metalhead!) to fully appreciate this one, haha -- either way it is relentless and awesome, and would 10 years ago totally have been shelved under "industrial". :D (How great is it that this gets away with counting as pop these days?)
Big brother's pet insect is watching you?
Date: 2008-12-19 04:58 pm (UTC)(In general this album hasn't yet hit me in the beautifully emotional way that Dangerous and Moving does, except for "Beliy Plaschik" of course. We'll see.)
Re: Big brother's pet insect is watching you?
Date: 2008-12-19 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-19 05:07 pm (UTC)