The short album by the Moscow-based band whose name translates simply to Violet Tulips, makes an interesting shoegaze debut. Despite some minor drawbacks, it seems that the artists have a great potential there.
It's particularly impressive how the project's music is able to combine moody guitars and backing vocals with lively, energetic background. Also the melodies fascinate with their appropriately shoegazish combination of pop freedom and delicate sadness. Undoubtedly it's greatly because of the neurotic vocal sounding as if it was produced together with tears.
The album is short (especially that the last two tracks are not even two minutes long) but hopefully announces more material by the Russians.
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