about
Sounds of Sputnik is a project spearheaded by Roma Kalitkin, whose signature sound mixes post-rock, shoegaze and dream pop with a slight kickback to noise pop. He draws inspiration from My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, Sonic Youth, Happy Mondays, and Slowdive.
Dubbing himself a “white crow”, the music he makes has always gone against trends within his home country of Russia, both as a solo artist and for the 20 years he played in various post-punk, alternative and shoegaze bands.
Sounds of Sputnik released his debut album "New Born" on Ear to Ear Records (UK) on November 21, 2014.
Sounds of Sputnik has grabbed the attention of numerous celebrated people, who became involved in this album, including Graham Bonnar (Swervedriver, Brian Jonestown Massacre), Malcolm Holmes (OMD), Fran Ashcroft (Damon Albarn, Lords of Acid), and Ummagma, who co-wrote, co-produced and performed on this album. Sounds of Sputnik also received a top prize at the 2014 Jagermeister Russian Indie Music Awards in the 'Young Blood' nomination category, as well as one for Best East European Video at the 2014 Australian Independent Music Video Awards.
Links:
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twitter.com/sosputnik
www.youtube.com/kalitkindoors
www.reverbnation.com/soundsofsputnik
lyrics
Here we go, reeling along
White gloves, trippin’ doze
Move toward you, then beyond you
Wish the world away, world away
On your mark now, keeping time
Must stay on your toes
Bite the bullet, hoping we can
Kiss the world away, world away
You see, now the time is right
There’s no drug to fix this one, no
You see, got to slow things down
Put a brake on problems old, we’ve
We’ve running on null
Running on what we’ve borrowed
Step ahead then two behind
Always wondering how it could’ve been
Had the cards been better dealt to me
Fail to risk at all
Log another day, another day
Road I want is right ahead of me
All along the sights I’d never see
Had I blinders on
And let them show the way
You’ve been running double time
With all gears locked in overdrive
And you’ve been talking out both sides
But there’s one thing, one thing
You’ve been running double time
All gears locked in overdrive
You’ve been talking out both sides
But there’s one thing, one thing
You see, now the time is right
You see, got to slow things down
And kiss the world away
We’re running on null
Running on what we’ve borrowed
Step ahead then two behind now
Running on null
Running on what we’ve stolen
Dated mark for humankind, no
Always wondering how it could’ve been
Had the cards been better dealt to me
Fail to risk at all
Mark another day, another day
credits
from
Revolution - The Shoegaze Revival,
released February 11, 2015
from Revolution - The Shoegaze Revival, releases 11 February 2015
All songs written and performed by Sounds of Sputnik
Arranged, recorded and produced by Roman Kalitkin
Recorded, co-produced, mixed and mastered by Alexander Kretov at Ummagma Studio
Drums by Graham Bonnar (of Swervedriver, The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
Arranged, lyrics and vocals by Shauna McLarnon
Track contributed courtesy of Ear to Ear Records
eartoearrecords.co.uk
eartoearrecords.com
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