Independent review

Let's start the reviews of the year 2018 with a Russian novelty. Ilya 'Chert' Knabengof again released an album. And not a solo and not an acoustic one, but a full-fledged Pilot one. The first minus was clear even before listening - Ilya loves very much to record everything that he has written. The runtime is huge, I would have cut the disc by almost half. But here is what is pleasant - the second half is really good. The record represents a stylistic retrospective of Pilot's creative work. There is acoustic, there is typical Russian rock, there is alternative, and there are even references to the band's heaviest album 'Isolator'. Of course, it was not without borrowings and imitations, however they are absolutely appropriate. 'Welcome to Hell' - is generally one of the best songs of the album, it sounds like a mixture of 'Alisa' and 'Agata Kristi'. 'Unlove', 'Not a Survivor' and 'Survivor' - give the best idea about the diversity of the disc and form with 'Welcome...' a quartet of main hits. I will also note '4 by 4' and 'Intolerance'. Style saturation and competent distribution of tracks along the album does not allow one to get bored even after the most dismal songs, without which, of course, it was not without. Dismal not in the sense of slow, but idea-less. Finally, Ilya is focused and sounds alive, and not stamping records for the sake of quantity and poems. No, it is very far to the level of the beginning of the two-thousands, but there is hope that the regress will not progress.

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