Russian Stoner Rock Community

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If we explore our local musical scene with all it’s weirdness and stuff, we will notice the fact, that a band, which is marked as “member of a local (enter a style name) community” in 85/100 cases plays absolute crap. That’s why being tagged as a founders of a Moscow stoner rock wave never comforted us. Our first release — LP “Just a Fish” in fact really sounded much like your average stoner rock record, but that’s probably due to the fact, that most of the riffs were written for the pre-Stone Cold Boys band – before our line-up was completed. Cited as a stoner rock band though (ever tried to play southern rock in a country with a 6 month winter?), we always enjoyed writing more eclectic, frivolous, humorous songs, so this release — “Fuss for the Housewives” — was an attempt to break free from the style cliches. Our bassist managed to find a studio near Moscow with some vintage gear (1959’s Slingerland drums for example), combined with our that time’s passion for old jazz records, it was a crucial part. Having a bit of a new material, we wanted to document, we headed straight there. All the process took us only a few hours, so it was more of a fun, than of a hard work, so it came as a pleasant surprise, that we really enjoyed the result. Good atmosphere plus absence of any pressure from the outside (timing, label, etc) made this record really free, with some fresh air on it. From the songwriting point of view, this is exactly what we wanted to play at that time — laid back humorous rock’n'roll songs without “greasy riffs” shit, recorded at the perfect day with a perfect mood, we actually had. Hope you will enjoy the record as we enjoyed recording it.

Our next LP (which is in a preparation stage right now) will probably be more heavy, more experimental, but we’ve kept something from this EP — some B-movies storytelling humor in lyrics. And if you are eager to hear some new stuff, we’re just about to release some songs from our acoustic playlist. Those were rearranged for a special jazzy acoustic night (the club refused to book us at our hardcore style, so we learned to play upright bass and played “restaurant program” that night. That was fun), songs from the oncoming album + cover version of Faith no More’s “Midlife Crisis”. So, let’s keep in touch!

Pavel Makarov, Stone Cold Boys.
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