Frankly speaking singer-songwriter music is not the most common genre in Ukraine. I can recall just a couple of names: Igor Sidorenko`s Voida, Konstantin Poshtar`s Postman, and Sasha Boole with his blend of folk and country. I can even add a couple of less mentioned ones, like Vlad Gnatenko or Sergey Turovich and his земля живих (Land of the Living). But either these people deliberately froze this projects, or partially went into more popular styles, which can attract more listeners. If, speaking of singer-songwriters, we mean Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake or at least soulful indie folk in the a la Eliott Smith, then any distant echoes of this music in Ukrainian scene is already worth mentioning. At least for this reason, I couldn’t just get past new sophistication. record without giving it a try.