Biography
Although the phrase "should not be fed under the changeable world" invented the group "Time Machine", she became the motto of creativity of the young musical team "Komsomolsk"."The protest spirit lives in the hearts and does not depend on political imyarchiness; Music is ahead of life, and not chasing her, "they say in an interview with Komsomolchan.The history of creation and composition
Many listeners associate a group with a youth toponymic name exclusively with vocalists Darya Darya Darygina and Arina Andreva, the first of which plays the guitar, and the second is on keyboard tools. However, Komsomolsk is a quartet, as part of which, except for a couple of girls, there are two guys - the drummer Pavel Kochetkov and the bass guitarist Ivan Ryabov, who invented the name of the team.
The leader of the group - Dryugina, with honors that graduated from the music school in the class of piano, and in front of the final examinations of the self-taught the game on the guitar, in his youth with Ilya Bulgakov created an English-speaking duet Gin & Milk. When Russian-speaking compositions included in Russia, Daria invited 17-year-old Arina to a new project, writing songs, and Ivan, who met at the concert of the British Indi-Rock band The Libertines. A little later, the drummer Ilya Lopatin joined the trio.
The debut mini-album "Komsomolsk-1" recorded in the basement of an apartment building, the group presented in June 2017. The highlight of the speeches of the team, as can be seen from concert photos and collections covers, steel wigs on the heads of vocalist. After the first concerts, Lopatin left for permanent residence in Poland, and a native of Voronezh Kochetkov, previously played jazz and funk in the nightclubs and bars of the cities of Chernozem, took the place behind the impact installation.
Music
Music "Komsomolsk" is at the junction of indie-pop and indie rock, and in the texts of the songs, the band members combine nostalgia on the Soviet and restructuring past with a call to the present time. The prevailing attitude towards the future is bewilderment and restrained fear. So, in the composition "Black glasses", phrases "Oprikhnik, come out, is your day" and "where to find in the world of black sun, extinct eyes and tired ... Fighting such friends as Edward Limonov and Danila Bagrov."Himself "Komsomolchan" is called the musicians-booths. The phrases of songs often become memes, as it became with a quote from the song "Where are we now?", Lighter the first clip of the team: "Calm down, I'm not from Chechnya, so that you constantly apologize to me." Derdyagina explains this phenomenon with the existence of a group in a media space, part of which is seeping in the composition.
Often "Komsomolsk" predicts the future. So it came out with a clip on the "Black Square" song, to which they belong to the prediction of nervous disorders for self-insulation in the Pandemic era. Similarly, the song "What is hidden in my pockets" fans are associated with Ivan Golunov, but the track came out before provocation with the journalist's prohibited substances.
The topicality and metaphoricity of songs and the municipality of music led to the popularity of Komsomolsk among the listeners of different ages. The group participated in the transfer of "Evening Urgant", the festivals "Picnic" of the posters "," wild mint "and" Anton here are nearby ", traveled in a tour in Russia and Belarus, released a number of mini-albums, the most successful of which became" dear Muscovites "
"Komsomolsk" now
In August 2020, the first full-length collection of Indi-Komsomolchan "" Middle Light "came out, and on May 12, 2021, Komsomolsk replenished the discography of the album" Retro ", which included 9 songs. On May 14, the group presented a novelty in the 1930 Moscow club, and during the three next weeks gave concerts in the cities of the Volga region, the Urals, Southern Siberia, as well as in Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg.
Discography
- 2017 - Komsomolsk-1
- 2017 - "Cassa Freedom"
- 2017 - "90210"
- 2018 - "Dear Muscovites"
- 2019 - "Psychic Day"
- 2020 - "Middle Light"
- 2021 - "Retro"
Clips
- 2018 - "Where are we now?"
- 2018 - "Orchestra"
- 2019 - "Black Square"
- 2020 - "Ivanova"