New hip-hop recordings from Samara and St Petersburg show a high degree of faith in sentiment and stargazing. An equally recent project from Moscow, though, implies that optimism and escapist fantasies will slowly fade away...
All three of these projects toy with elements of nostalgia or even tawdry, overtly commercial music-making. Nonetheless, somewhere beneath the irony, self-mockery, and sarcasm, a lyrical sprit endures.
Four new electronic and lo-fi releases have paid particular attention to small, muffled, or sidelined voices. They all downplay the importance of vocals - seemingly to common ends
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