Mertvyj Piven'. Pisni Mertvoho Pivnja. // www.UMKA.com.ua

Of course, everyone who waited this album were delighted. Waited for a long time – and it has no matter what the album turned out to be. Well, almost. I believe - as I was delighted twice. First - when I have seen, then - when I’ve listened. You, probably, absolutely did not wait. Probably, you simply did not know, that it is necessary to wait, necessary to be pleased here. Well to wait is not necessary already, either nobody will force to be pleased. It will happen itself. If you are not indifferent to texts with several senses (it is Yuri Andrukhovych); to music with several vectors of a foggy transparency which coincide as casually, as how much are happily (it is Mertvy Piven - "the Dead Rooster"); to all this world poetics because it does not depend on the form. Moreover fills it with the form - the sense. Intelligent absurdity? The elegant beggar? The Intellectual punk? Leave, it... If I am not mistaken, Luis Armstrong has told, that he could sing even the phone book. "The Dead Cock" has expressed in the same way after record of this album. And you know what? They really could. Nevertheless, it is good that they didn't.

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)

Yuri Andrukhovych, Mertvyj Piven'. Made in YuA.

"Made in YuA" is not just a dedication to UA, although it is here that Yury Andruhovych acted not only as the author of the lyrics, but also as a full-fledged participating performer. "Made in YuA" is poignant texts with the genetic spirals of subtexts, delicate – excuse my tautology – rock melodiousness with burlesque and grotesques masks, with the already branded atmosphere of transparent dusk..

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Victor Morozov, Chetvertyy kut. Armija Svitla. (Army of Light)

...the album again suggests the idea that the war for independence of Ukraine that started dozens of years ago – lasts till now. And now even more than ever before it is opposition of identities – because external, political and geographic independence is worth nothing unless it is founded on internal freedom. To quote the song – "...to be oneself and to be proud".

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Yuri Andrukhovych, Mertvyj Piven'. Kryminal‘ni sonety. (Criminal Sonnets)

...This time we can see appearance of something that, it seems, has never before happened in the space of modern Ukrainian music. It is difficult and even virtually impossible to call "Criminal Sonnets" a reaction to such phenomenon as modern Russian chanson (or simpler – the rogue song). It is not just more elevated, it is – even better – different. Refined and simple, grotesque and life-like at the same time...

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