Холодные Ладони - Крайности (2017) EN

According to my modest experience with this genre, the combination of rap with heavy guitar music is rarely a good way to go. What's more, Холодные Ладони is also a very exotic project as everything is in Russian. Not being able to understand the message is certainly an obstacle but we can look at other aspects and they all seem quite interesting.

Холодные Ладони' hip-hop sounds very traditional, there's no room for poetic recitation or unnecessary effects, if there were beats instead of the guitar background, it could go easily for a Russian hip-hop underground. Still, the rapping capabilities of the artist are truly impressive as the lyrics pass by in such a speed, even Russian speakers may have problems with understanding them at once (as in "Лабиринт").

I regret not understanding the lyrics but there's still music. Here on the other hand, if it was separated from the vocal, we'd get a top-shelf guitar post-rock. The one that is not smooth in any way, quite on the contrary. The guitars are aggressive and fast but also go very well with the unnatural company of hip-hop. Although the name of the project doesn't mean anything pleasant (as Холодные Ладони literally means cold hands and everyone knows how difficult the phenomenon is), the music is really worth listening to.

"Крайности" costs 1 USD.

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