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- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2024
- Summary: The 18-track compilation of Ukrainian music made before, during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union was curated over five years by Light in the Attic Records' Matt Sullivan, producers David Mas, Mark "Frosty" McNeill, and Ukrainian label Shukai Records.
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- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, International, Easy Listening, European Folk, Euro-Rock, Euro-Disco
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Nov 27, 2024Comprised of 18 gorgeous rarities, it doesn’t so much sprawl as build, never flat but instead rising and falling in different and complex shapes. It’s exciting to move from track to track, to hear change and continuity interwoven.
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Nov 5, 2024The broad sweep of the anthology—from state-sanctioned folk-rock to disco, exotica, musique concrete, and jazz in many guises—offers a breathtaking introduction to Ukrainian music’s scope and diversity.
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Nov 5, 2024From Kobza’s “trad walz inflected” ‘Bunny’, released in 1971, to Ihor Tsymbrovsky’s wonderfully melodramatic chanson, ‘Beatrice’, from 1996. Along the way we get gems like The Hostilnia’s marvellously doleful rap, ‘Sick Song’, from 1992 and work by the remarkable Svitlana Okhrimenko from Sugar White Death.
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Classic Rock MagazineNov 5, 2024An absolute pleasure of an album. [Nov 2024, p.83]
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UncutNov 5, 2024There are a few stumbles into the synth-pop abyss, but this material feels somehow less galling than examples from Western Europe or the USA, as though the evident excitement in exploring new technology gifts the songs a certain, welcome, naiveté. Even The Forest Hums really kicks into gear when we hit the Kyiv underground of the late ’80s and early ’90s. [Dec 2024, p.52]