Independent review

The previous album, Izolyator, by the St. Petersburg group Pilot, quite impressed me. It was original, powerful, and aptly composed. Somewhat close to my favorite creation of the group - Ryba, krot i svinya. I knew that the next album was planned in a different key — a more bard-like direction of Ilya Chort. And here, I believe, is a clear overreach. After all, rock music and bard songs are different things, here Ilya Knabengof sounds in places like Oleg Mityaev. And he does this quite boringly and monotonously. In those compositions where rock music prevails, it is so Russian-rock-like that it immediately asks for airplay on Nashe Radio (I do not want to offend anyone). Moreover, in many songs, for no reason at all, some ancient Russian motifs break through. And if at first it seems more or less original, then soon it begins to simply become tiresome. Plus, Kinchev-like intonations in the voice returned, and I had already begun to forget whom Ilya was painstakingly copying on earlier albums. There are not-bad songs, but there is nothing to highlight in particular. The composition Besy breaks out of the general flow of the album a little and is quite worthy of a separate listening, although this song is not new.

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