Viktor Ori’s debut solo album LEPSIE NEBOLO NIKDY DOBRE NEBUDE is an album all over the place. in the most complimentary of senses. coming from one of the deepest and most uncompromising projects on the Slovak contemporary music scene, it is an album of profound weltschmerzen.

the music and themes are acute, harrowing, and deeply radical. LEPSIE NEBOLO NIKDY DOBRE NEBUDE paints a bleak picture. exactly as the time we’re living in. it is a statement at times subjective and personal, at other times universal, general, generational. at all times deeply honest and political. it is not hopeful but at least, it feels sincere.

Viktor has somehow // unfathomably managed to compress Shallov’s eposes into almost-radio-friendly almost-popsongs (had the “common” radio-listener been slightly more openminded and keen on social awareness) and for the first time, his songs feature Slovak lyrics. these are not only hopeless and unsettling, but also astute, sardonic, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 cynical. yet, it is perhaps this 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 and more realistic way of experiencing the world that allows for some relief and reconciliation. and at the same time, encourages action.

LEPSIE NEBOLO NIKDY DOBRE NEBUDE is out November 15th: Listen // buy via our bandcamp and on all streaming platforms.

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