Ploho

Russian band

RDS
Sierpien
Artoffact

MembersViktor Uzhakov
Andrei Smorgonsky
Igor Starshinov

Ploho (Russian for "bad") is a Russian post-punk band from Novosibirsk, formed in 2013.

History

The group was established in Novosibirsk in 2013. In an interview with Post-Punk.com^[1] the band cited growing up in the "rather cold and dark time" of "total crime and chaos" of Russia in the 1990s as drawing the band members towards punk music from an early age. Most influential to the band in this period was the seminal Soviet 80s post punk band Kino.

In 2018, the American radio station XRAY.fm listed the band's album Kuda ptitsy uletayut umirat (Russian: Куда птицы улетают умирать, lit. 'Where the birds fly away to die') in their ranking of the top 25 best albums of the year.^[2]^[3]

In June 2020, the band signed with Canadian record label Artoffact Records.^[4] In February 2021, the band released Fantomniye chuvstva (Russian: Фантомные Чувства, lit. 'Phantom Feelings').

Studio albums

Year	Original title	Translated title
2014	Смирение и отрицание	Humility and denial
2014	Добрая песня	Kind song
2015	Новостройки	New buildings
2016	Культура доминирования	Dominance culture
2016	Тот, кто гасит свет	One who puts out the light
2016	Хотеть тепла	To want warmth
2017	Бумажные бомбы	Paper bombs
2018	Куда птицы улетают умирать	Where the birds fly away to die
2019	Пыль	Dust
2021	Фантомные Чувства	Phantom Feelings
2022	Когда душа спит	When the soul sleeps
2024	Почва	Soil

Cameo role in Isaac

The group made a cameo in the film Isaac from the Lithuanian director Jurgis Matulevičius. They cameo as a band during a scene and play their songs "Crosses" and "Down".^[5]^[6]

References

^ "An Introduction to Russian Post-Punk with Ploho and Molchat Doma". Post-Punk.com. 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ "A Different Kind of Infamy - 2018's 25 Best Albums, Pt 2 - Songs from under the Floorboard /// XRAY.fm". XRAY.FM. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
^ Vyun, Masha (2019-01-05). "Альбом новосибирской группы Ploho вошел в топ американского радио". ngs.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
^ "Ploho releases new single from upcoming album on Artoffact". ReGen Magazine. 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ Manko, Nikita (2017-10-13). "Новосибирская группа Ploho сыграла в фильме о холокосте в Литве". sib.fm (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
^ Osintseva, Lidiya (2017-10-17). "Новосибирская группа Ploho появится в фильме о холокосте". Sobaka.ru [ru] (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-02-25.