Friday, October 14, 2016

“TV” – “Ichthyosaur” *** – intermedia.ru

2016, “Geometry”

Over the last couple years I’ve listened to a dozen reprinted “Geometry” archival albums “TV” and received a serious overdose. By love label the bonus discs and videoversija the same songs in each edition could have come 4-5 times, not to mention the fact that the set lists different concert DVD at all crossed at 60 percent. It is also difficult not to consider some of the monotony of the arrangements of Michael Borzykina, recorded part of the album alone on the computer.

“Ichthyosaur”-2016 from these problems, “TV” unexpectedly failed to get rid of. Despite the name, Flirty, hinting at the “fossil” age of the project, the sound was not in the sample more diverse. Borzykin, as usual, recorded the album almost single-handedly, with a little help from guitarist Sergey Savickogo, but the mastering was done in düsseldorf. This principle isn’t really doing much, and could in Kandalaksha; somehow a fresh look from the went to “TV” to use.

in this approach Borzykina to the lyrics, nothing has changed, but the view from the outside does not help. Michael continues to experience fierce hatred of the “kremlyadi” and “gazprommedia” tirelessly to find them new angry words. Publitsisticheskie this moments very much, but sometimes columnist wins Borzykina musician with a knockout. However, when they try to exist peacefully, it sometimes leads to even more surprising results. Imagine, for example, Boris Grebenshchikov, who to the accompaniment of the pastoral flutes of Brian Finnegan, blasting bloody regime. Well, it is difficult to imagine too phantasmagoric picture is obtained. “TV” is a very life-affirming “orlandino” able to hum: “so many losers, not Breakfast our good, glory and power is our music, our trough – Gazprom”. If you don’t believe, listen for yourself the song “the Party of God’s dew.” (By the way, in the same relaxed style “Island” and “Not counting the parrot”: here, Borzykin refused political slogans – not giving up some allegories – in which the songs can be at least in the children’s musicals include.)

by the Way, starts the album is also unusual for the usual “TV”: the song “Just to be a nobody” made in the genre of synth-pop – real dance, not “Soviet synth-pop” as a group Borzykina sometimes mockingly described. The text of the song, however, is quite hopeless, but at least not again. The autobiographical ballad “the banks” sets the listener on an even more brooding mood, and then combative Michael returns to typical protest zongo. “Red snow”, “the Jungle will prevail”, “Horologio”, “Hysteria sows”, “forgive us” full of gloomy prophecies and unflattering epithets against the current government. However, in some publications and blogs every day you can meet much more politically incorrect things – and the problem Borzykina is that the musical form of protest today is not particularly popular. In contrast to the network of columnists, Michael have to spend time and money on writing, recording and mastering in Dusseldorf – and the exhaust, perhaps the result is not more than the articles on the Internet.

Alexey smearing, InterMedia

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