Zvuki Mu (album)

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Zvuki Mu
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Studio album by
Released1989
RecordedNovember 1988, Gosteleradio Studio 3, Moscow
Genre
Length39:01
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Brian Eno
Zvuki Mu chronology
Zvuki Mu
(1989)
Transnadezhnost
(1991)

Zvuki Mu is the debut and only internationally released album by the Russian band Zvuki Mu, released in 1989 and produced by Brian Eno.

Contents

The album was released in Russia in 1998 with a bonus track. This Russian reissue was rereissued in 2013 on vinyl.

Reception

Spin wrote, "They approach rock music the way a group of aliens might, stumbling over artifacts in a time capsules.". [1]

Track list

  1. The Source of Infection
  2. Crazy Queen
  3. Forgotten Sex
  4. Zero Minus One
  5. Leave Me Alone
  6. Krym
  7. Gadopiatnika
  8. Paper Flowers
  9. Traffic Policeman
  10. Zima (Winter)
  11. Zima (Dance Remix) – bonus track only on Russian CD and vinyl editions.

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References

  1. Don Watson (May 1989). "Man out of time". Spin. No. 47. p. 42.