Motorama

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Adult contemporary, Aor, Baroque Pop, Britpop, Chamber Pop, Classic rock, Coldwave, Emo, English, Garage Rock, Glam, Grunge, Indie rock, Indie-pop, Krautrock, Pop rock, Post-punk, Power pop, Rock, Shoegazing, Twee

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From Behind Closed Doors: KDIMB, Motorama, Crossparty, and Punk TV

Three of these projects epitomize a very English melancholy or turn instead to the dark and fuzzy registers of witch-house. The fourth locks itself in a bathroom until somebody starts writing music.

Softer than Soft: Zimavsegda, Malinen, Kapus, and KrisMirror

A number of quiet, introspective recordings this week toy with the boundaries of chillwave and soft rock. As simultaneous releases ponder a greater degree of confidence, other poets and traditions are drawn upon. Such as funk-rock!

Endurance: Kimberley, Human Tetris, High-Speed Kings, and Jakarta Project

A handful of new EPs and mini-albums this week show the importance of persistence over inspiration. That same validation of endurance then gets romanticized, turning difficulty into a badge of honor.

Delicacy and Destiny: Galway, Marina Nevgen', and Magnetic Poetry

Although shoegaze and dreampop are two styles designed to evoke a rather "homeless" ambience, some recent Minsk and Moscow examples prove different. They both show signs of local experience.

Four New Singles: Motorama, Man Bites Dog, Klub Zavtrak, and Gruzovik

These four new net-singles from Moscow, Rostov-na-Donu, Dnipropetrovsk, and Komsomolsk-na-Amure differ greatly in style. When it comes any audible worldview, however, a large overlap is evident.

Acquiescence, Not Acquisition: Ned Hoper, Zazazone, and Aerofall

Ned Hoper, Aerofall, and Zazazone are all connected to other ensembles or collaborative endeavors. These bands all ponder various alternatives to haughty, self-assured creativity through humbling and social enterprise.

Leaving Home: White Wishes, Poor Useless Me, The Fortuneville, and Kites

Shoegaze and indie-pop traditions have (re)appeared in interesting ways this week. A handful of releases show how an escapist style, willy-nilly, is tied to specific locations. Songwriting contexts, physically speaking, play an important role.

Love Affairs and Light Years: White Wishes, Akute, and The Little Angels Band

New recordings from Mogilev, St Petersburg, and Moscow all tend towards introspection and a related, muffled soundscape. The contexts for self-doubt are found everywhere - all the way from love stories to imagined space flight.

Post-Apocalyptic Chillwave and Hypnagogic Pop: New Songs from "Look at Me"

The Moscow magazine "Look at Me" recently chose a handful of promising songs from unknown artists. The songs were then given to some equally intriguing and youthful producers...

From Moscow's Smog to Outer Space: June Hunters and Klub Zavtrak

Two young ensembles from Moscow draw upon the romance of "unfinished" traditions within Soviet culture. Domestic rock music of the 1970s and tales of socialist space flight are both re-imagined

A Soundtrack to Snowy Weather: White Wishes and Zimavsegda

Zimavsegda and White Wishes are both connected to St Petersburg, yet have other links to Volgograd, Berlin, and beyond. What bonds them all, it seems, is a sense of quiet melancholy

An Overriding Air of Melancholy: New Recordings from Utro and VET

Utro are from Rostov-na-Donu and an extension of the popular band Motorama. Despite these deep local roots, they owe just as much to the Manchester scene of the early 1980s

Motorama: A Romantic Journey from Manchester to the Swiss Alps

This week sees the release of a debut album from Motorama, a band from the southern river-port of Rostov-na-Donu. The disc is entitled "Alps," consists of nine tracks and runs for almost 36 minutes. Since it can be downloaded for free, it's largely reliant upon the enthusiastic promo-work of str...

Motorama and Utro: Vivifying the Ethos of Late Soviet Rock

A young and willfully anonymous outfit from Moscow called Utro ("Morning") have just released a five-track, fifteen-minute EP, "Semnadtsaoe noiabria" (Seventeenth of November). The band members offer no information about themselves save a few initials and associated instruments: "I. (bass); M. (...