Leningrad

In impact and tone,Leningrad frontman Sergey Shnurov self-effacingly likens his music to pornography. Their chief innovation, the incorporation of non-normative language such as slang and curse words into their lyrics, is unexceptional enough in execution, brutishly enunciated by Shnurov and accompanied by a large cast of musicians toting hefty horn and percussion instruments. But, like with the work of postmodernist authors Vladimir Sorokin and Victor Pelevin of the same period, audiences found emancipation in their curses and colloquialisms, picked from the inexorable grime ...