Zdrastvootie

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Portland, OR

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From Sundown to Sunrise. Zdrastvootie "4" is here. Yet, the mix needs some adjusting. The vocals to loud, the drums to quiet....

Angular guitars woven into dreamy post rock soundscapes, occasional Greg Ginn like psychedelic squalls, all with a very Eastern raga-like hue. Rollicking and shambolic one moment, shimmering and pastoral the next. Riffs explode into full on rock mode but immediately decay into splattery, spare ambience. Chaotic skronk and skree implode into propulsive Krautrock mesmer. Really fucking great.

- Aquarius Records

Like a louder Art Bears with mere mortal male vocals. Definitely some sort of masterful modern prog rock practitioners; creating these ornate, almost baroque musical soundcastles out of guitars, bass, drums and keyboards, formed into self annihilating M.C. Escher impossible shapes. Thorny angularity nestles next to folk-like lullabies that are soon exploded and left splattered across the yellow linoleum.

- Dream Magazine

Ever feel like you have been just lifted off from another planet? Taken to a strange new place where nobody speaks your language or any language at all but communicate through sounds learned from Captain Beefheart's records. Yes? That is why the Zdrastvootie, an avant-guarde pop band from Santa Cruz are on a constant need for reinvention, their last album, was in the blood veins of Sonic Youth, all jagged instrumentals sent from drone-heaven to put you on a murderous cult-leader-trip. Yet, whilst the grooves are drones shot through with softness, it is Drew Adams otherwordly vocals that make the most perplexing bunch of art-rok-motherfuckers the next cool weirdness. But don't ask us how to pronounce the name.

-Poptones

The band creates complex compositions veering from spazz-jazz to intricate indie guitar-rock and more ethereal atmospheric stuff, sometimes all within the same song. People doing math and calling it music can be tedious, but Zdrastvootie's members manage to sidestep that tar pit by injecting some feeling into their compositions.

-S.F. Weekly