Aesthetic Education

When attitudinizing Ukrainian rockers Aesthetic Education (then spelled "Esthetic Education") hit the scene in 2004, with Brit-pop beats, misplaced melodies, and a contemptuous persona, they became darlings of the media, hailed as the new intelligent voice of post-Soviet rock music. Since then, they have been Ukraine's perennial fish out of water, self-consciously highbrow, conceptual, and "European." Aesthetic Education are a rock group with an international cast of musicians, including two former members of the successful Ukrainian ensemble Okean Elzi, Yuriy Hustochka (bass ...