gultskra artikler

Pofigistka

The latest emission from the Lampse imprint, 'Pofigistka' is the product of Alexey Devyanin (Stud) and Dmitry Garin (engineer_ garin) who (positioned at opposing ends of the Russian tundra) have joined forces to create the two-headed beast that is Gultskra Atrikler. Raking influnces through a bed of hot coals, 'Pofigistka' is cinematic in scope whilst retaining a level of immediacy that renders it tooth-achingly personal; alternating between broad sweeps of sound one moment and finey wrought aural dissertations the next. Opening through the glitch-fed guitars of 'Fizik Dydya Kolya', Garin & Devyanin blend a shimmering pallate of chiming frets and waterfull percussion, resulting in a sound that, whilst overtly diffused, can nontheless unite a spectrum of sounds into a compelling whole which is both fantastically catchy and totally bewitching. Elsewhere the likes of 'Siluet Kollet' and 'Otpusk Navesgda' manaage to sound both contempoary and nostalgic at the same time - culling any tendencies to offer up avant-justified bollocks in favour of the kind of music which gives sonic innovation a (very) good name. Backed up by some remixery from the likes of Xela, Svarte Greiner (Erik K. Skodvin of Deaf Center no less!) and Marcus Fjellstrom, 'Pofigistka' is like a shot of vodka for the soul. No crass national stereotypes round here then...