Solidaritine

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Solidaritine
Gogol Bordello - Solidaritine.jpg
Studio album by
Gogol Bordello
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2022 (2022-09-16)
Recorded2021
Studio
  • Atlantic Sound Studios, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
  • Inner Ear Studios, Washington, D. C., United States
  • Oscilloscope Studio, New York City, New York, United States
  • Passafarm Studios, Princess Anne, Maryland, United States
  • Tank Studios, Burlington, Vermont, United States
Genre Folk punk, [1] Gypsy punk [1]
Length47:02
LanguageEnglish
Label Cooking Vinyl
Producer
Gogol Bordello chronology
Seekers and Finders
(2017)		Solidaritine
(2022)

Solidaritine is a 2022 studio album by American Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. It has received positive reviews from critics. The album has a theme of supporting the Ukrainian people in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was supported by a tour [2] that included performing for Ukrainian soldiers. [3] [4]

Contents

Reception

Editors at AllMusic Guide rated this album 4.5 out of five stars, calling it among the best of 2022, with critic Thom Jurek writing that the music has diversity with, "many different folk styles here, all are given utterance through punk and post-punk" and summing up "its canny songwriting and sophisticated musicianship combined with [Walter] Schreifels' raw production make this album one of the band's finest to date". [1] Writing for The Arts Desk , Guy Oddy rated this album three out of five stars, praising the band for not "resorting to sloganeering" while using their music for political advocacy, but lamenting that "it’s yet another album that really doesn’t do justice to a band whose explosive shows are nothing less than spectacular". [5] In Louder Than War , Steve John proposed that Solidaritine "may be one of the most urgent and personal albums of this or any other year it isn’t just a soundtrack to a war". [3] Bob Fish of Spectrum Culture rates this release four out of five stars, calling it "an album that stands up to the forces of hate and bigotry". [6]

Track listing

All songs have music written by Gogol Bordello, with lyrics by Eugene Hütz, except where noted

  1. "Shot of Solidaritine" – 4:11
  2. "Focus Coin" – 4:32
  3. "Blueprint" (Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, Ian MacKaye, and Guy Picciotto, a Fugazi cover) – 3:02
  4. "The Era of the End of Eras" – 4:23
  5. "I’m Coming Out" – 3:36
  6. "Knack for Life" – 3:05
  7. "The Great Hunt of Idiot Savant" – 3:27
  8. "Take Only What You Can Carry" (lyrics by Hütz and Serhiy Zhadan) – 2:42
  9. "My Imaginary Son" – 3:33
  10. "Forces of Victory" (lyrics by Hütz and Zhadan) – 3:58
  11. "Fire on Ice Floe" – 4:51
  12. "Gut Guidance" – 3:31
  13. "Huckleberry Generation" – 2:11

Personnel

Gogol Bordello

Additional personnel

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Jurek, Thom. "Gogol Bordello – Solidaritine". AllMusic Guide . Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Solidaritine Tour Announced". Gogol Bordello. March 8, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  3. 1 2 John, Steve (September 12, 2022). "Gogol Bordello: Solidaritine". Louder Than War . Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  4. ↑ Glass, Polly (January 26, 2023). "Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz on Ukraine and the power of punk-rock resistance". Louder Sound . Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  5. ↑ Oddy, Guy (September 14, 2022). "Album: Gogol Bordello – Solidaritine". The Arts Desk . Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  6. ↑ Fish, Bob (September 16, 2022). "Gogol Bordello: SOLIDARITINE". Spectrum Culture . Retrieved May 23, 2023.
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