Theodor Bastard - V (Digipack)

Facts Theodor Bastard refuse to stay still. In the five years of relative silence since their last studio venture, the world music pioneers were searching for a way out of the darkness that's descended over reality. The path that they discovered didn't lead back to their home in the harsh northern forest region of Karelia but away from it, into the coldness of the city and a collapsing civilization. By reconnecting with their electronic roots, Theodor Bastard are reborn on ?. While still widely recognized both in and outside of Russia for ritual folk and world music, Theodor Bastard re-embraced their early electronic impulses because that's now how modern life feels: cold, sharp, tense. ?'s lead single is a sure sign that the band are bound for dark new horizons. Like a space shuttle, Sverkay rumbles with distorted bass before it's suspended high above the earth by a trap-like beat. ???? - ????? (Inhale - Exhale), sings a bewitching Yana Veva as she glimpses what's to come from our dangerous endgame with war, technology and social division.