General

I'm interested in music (I think it's obvious from the page), poetry (mostly Russian), theology, abstract painting and sometimes old films

Music

• Альфред Шнитке [Alfred Schnittke] - Concerto Grosso № 1 is polystilistic masterpiece
• Александр Скрябин [Alexander Scriabin] - I really love his piano music, especially Etude Op. 8 No. 3
• Anouar Brahem - my favourite arabic jazz, After the Last Sky made me cry
• Anthony Braxton - genius composer and improviser inspired by everything in the Universe, For Alto is something different
• Anthony Davis - Lady of the Mirrors is a very cool surreal journey
• Antonio Vivaldi - everyone knows him, but many don't take his music seriously, even though they should
• Aphex Twin - SAW 85-82 is classic, but he created a lot of other cool stuff
• Arvo Pärt - made strings cry, and me too
• Ария [Aria] - russian Iron Maiden
• Arthur Russell - I love that I can't really describe his music, just trust that Another Thought is good
• Autechre - earl stuff is classic simple IDM, late stuff is more complex and glitchy, but still melodic music, both are great
• Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out is peak gothic rock, slept on, listen to it
• Bethlehem - best DSBM, Rainer Landfermann is unique vocalist, I wish there was more music with him
• Björk - art pop queen
• Black Sabbath - Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie James Dio, Ian Gillan, Tony Martin... yeah, this is definitely a great band
• Bladee - sweden king of pop music who unexpectedly made rage an enjoyable genre
• Boards of Canada - hauntology and maths
• Boris - Flood is a great example of how sometimes playing fewer notes is playing more music
• Brian Eno - 50 years of good ambient, drone, electronic, art pop, art rock, post-punk, glam rock, impressionism, experimental rock and afrobeat
• Burial - he interpreted club music in a very good way
• C418 - it's not really that cool, but it's Minecraft
• Candlemass - I love it when musicians understand that repeating a beautiful part many times is a good idea
• Cecil Taylor - his piano is a whole orchestra
• Cocteau Twins - The Moon and the Melodies is kinda underrated
• Coil - some of their music sounds like the end of the world, some like a bad trip
• Colin Stetson - meditative post-minimalism, I fell asleep to his music dozens of times
• Control Denied - progressive US power metal from Chuck Schuldiner? I'm definitely listening to that
• Converge - a unique phenomenon (good modern metalcore)
• Crimson Glory - this vocalist is so good
• Danny Brown - unc still got it
• David Bowie - he liked Scott Walker, Lynch liked him, he worked with Eno, Fripp, Mike Garson, Iggy Pop, he created Heroes, Blackstar and the underrated Outside, he was in the cool band Tin Machine
• David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts > Talking Heads
• David Sylvian - superb art pop and truly unique EAI reductionism poetic album Manafon, also don't miss his live performance with Fripp
• Dead Can Dance - peak darkwave, Lisa Gerrard is one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard
• Death - sometimes I feel like the Symbolic is imprinted on my cerebral cortex
• Death Grips - they are very good at noisy aggressive music
• Deftones - perfect alternative metal band, incredibly catchy songs, Deftones (album) is very underrated
• Depeche Mode - band with 0 weak albums, Black Celebration is my personal favourite
• Derek Bailey - I had a really hard time listening to his music until I started noticing patterns in it, now I love his interpretations of standards
• Дмитрий Шостакович [Dmitri Shostakovich] - Symphony No. 8, no comments
• Егор и Опизденевшие [Egor i Opizdenevshie] - Sto let odinochestva and Pryg-skok: Detskie pesenki are peak psychedelic rock
• Ellen Arkbro - I love her collaboration with Johan Graden, very pleasant ambient post-minimalism pop
• Elliott Smith - strong songwriter, especially on the album Either / Or
• Erik Satie - influenced a lot of good things
• Evan Parker - when a saxophonist is so good that you can listen to an hour-long solo improvisation without production to tell it wasn't enough
• Eyeless in Gaza - new band for me, but I can already say that they are very strong as composers, and I really like their sound
• Fishmans - when I started listening to music, this was my favorite band, Long Season instilled in me a love for minimalism
• Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium is peak gothic rock, at first I didn't understand the vocals, but over time I liked it
• Frank Ocean - one of the best vocalists at this moment, Pyramids is the best pop song of the century so far
• Franz Liszt - they weren't ready for his late stuff
• Fred again.. - he understood the concept of the loop completely, and also made an inventive album with Eno
• Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic is classical experimental music with a sad background that we all know about
• Glenn Branca - totalism is good, I love it
• Godspeed You Black Emperor! - not a very stable band, but they did really well on Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
• Harold Budd - my favorite ambient
• Have a Nice Life - depressing music for teenagers, and I have a young soul
• Henry Cow - do you know who Fred Frith is? He's a genius
• Horace Tapscott - I'm incredibly happy to have found album The Giant Is Awakened
• Ігор Цимбровський [Ihor Tsymbrovskyi] - I wish Novaya Scena was bigger, this is very soulful music
• Игорь Стравинский [Igor Stravinsky] - Spring Rounds make me banging my head hard
• Invisible - just love it
• Iron Maiden - my favorite heavy metal band, very strong composers and vocalists, the late epic and long stuff is very underrated
• Johann Sebastian Bach - let's not state the obvious
• John Coltrane - the best jazz, period
• John Fahey - made me pick up a guitar (I don't know how to play) and strum it for hours on end
• John Tilbury - great improviser, he played with Evan Parker, David Sylvian, Keith Rowe and many others
• Joy Division - their second album is too good
• JPEGMAFIA - in 2024, he showed himself to be an excellent composer who can make not only good hip hop
• Judas Priest - they made Sentinel
• Kali Malone - she created my favorite album All Life Long, which literally changed my life
• Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak is peak minimalism pop
• Kate Bush - another art pop queen
• Keith Jarrett - I have great respect for this pianist
• Леонид Фёдоров [Leonid Fyodorov] - Anabaena, Lilovy den', Elegy... I could talk about these unique avant-garde folk albums for a very long time
• Lisa Gerrard - I already wrote that she is one of the best vocalists in history
• Mark Hollis - this was the best autumn walk of my life, I love sparse atmosphere
• Marion Brown - Porto Novo is free jazz hidden gem
• Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - album World Is Yours is unique in that it has been with me throughout the development of my musical taste, and I still love it
• Maurice Ravel - the more I listened to impressionism, the more I realized that Ravel was my favorite, and I'm not even talking about Bolero
• McCoy Tyner - brilliant pianist in John Coltrane's classic quartet, who later distinguished himself on albums Focal Point and Guitars
• Megadeth - the fact that Dave Mustaine left Metallica gave us two great bands instead of one, very good composer
• Mercyful Fate - you can't fool me, this isn't just heavy, it's progressive metal
• Metallica - I could talk a lot about this band's discography and how underrated it is, but let's keep it short: the first four albums are truly classics, the Black Album is not overrated, Load and Reload are great blues metal, the best thing that happened to the band, St. Anger and Death Magnetic are really weak, Lulu is gorgeous avant-garde poetic metal with cool riffs
• Miles Davis - jazz classic, and he has a very diverse discography, even instrumental hip-hop
• Morton Feldman - sometimes I do mundane tasks listening to Triadic Memories to feel like I'm in an arthouse movie
• Neil Young - when I was 15, I didn't understand what all the hype around Neil Young was about, but as I grew older, I realized he is one of the best songwriters in history
• Neutral Milk Hotel - I just can't help but sing along when the album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea plays
• Nevermore - one of the best progressive metal bands, Warrel Dane is a very smart guy with great taste
• Nick Drake - another strong songwriter that I didn't understand when I was 15, but then I re-listened to Things Behind The Sun and River Man and something changed, by the way, the song Know is literally Boris's Flood (not my idea, but still)
• Nico - Desertshore is peak avant-folk, and I highly recommend the album Camera Obscura, just listen to the first track, I'm not the only one who thinks it's really cool, right?
• Nina Simone - do I really have to say anything?
• Nujabes - good composer, very soulful and kind music
• Olivier Messiaen - a composer who made time stand still, and he also loved birds
• Pink Floyd - many will think I'm crazy, but in my opinion The Wall is their best album
• Radiohead - I could talk about this band for a very long time, so I'll express an unpopular opinion: all of their albums, starting with Kid A, are 10/10
• Rainer Landfermann - Bethlehem vocalist, Pavor bassist and simply an outstanding avant-garde metal composer.
• Richard Dawson - I discovered this artist this year, a very unusual progressive folk, good music for the brain, to me, it feels like a broken line, he knows how to surprise
• Robert Fripp - beautiful melodies, pointillistic patterns, complex rhythms, hooky parts, ambient canvases, noisy stuff, he can do it all
• Robert Wyatt - Canterbury Scene genius
• Robin Guthrie - guitarist from Cocteau Twins, he has cool collaborations with Harold Budd
• SALEM - I don't like witch house, but SALEM is a band that managed to make it very simple and at the same time beautiful, especially the second album
• Sam Kidel - this isn't about music, but Disruptive Muzak had a unique effect on me
• Scott Walker - one of the most interesting discographies, moved from pop to avant-garde, Climate of Hunter is a brilliant album, I return to it constantly, I hope someday I will understand what came after it
• Сергей Рахманинов [Sergei Rachmaninoff] - everything is obvious here
• Slint - anxious post-hardcore, their track Washer made me pick up a guitar
• Slowdive - classic shoegaze
• Songs: Ohia - another artist I didn't understand at all before, now I really love the album The Magnolia Electric Co.
• Sonic Youth - one of my most listened to bands, best albums: Daydream Nation, Goo, Simon Werner a disparu (hidden gem)
• Stars of the Lid - minimalism drone with taste
• Steve Reich - classic minimalism
• Swans - one of the best bands of our time, the album To Be Kind is perfect, and their early releases (except Filth) and the gothic rock period of their work are very underrated
• Talk Talk - everything I wrote about Mark Hollis + cool pop music from their early days
• Tangerine Dream - dark ambient is a bad genre, and Tangerine Dream managed to create a masterpiece in it with Zeit, which has notes of academic music
• Тату [t.A.T.u.] - great Russian electropop, like the Russian version better
• Тальник [Talnik] - very good modern Russian pop with a twist, check out Цвет надежды
• Троіца [Troitsa] - Belarusian folk, Zimachka is my favorite winter album
• Tears for Fears - they made me fall in love with synthpop (yes, I wasn't very fond of it at one time)
• Terry Riley - everyone knows about In C, it's a classic, but what about Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band: "All Night Flight" Vol. 1?
• Thom Yorke - he made the best album of 2025, but for some reason everyone is silent about it (minimalism, post-minimalism, modern classical, cold, dark, slow, atmospheric, quiet, ambient art pop)
• Tim Buckley - it's hard to describe in a few words; you have to listen to the king of avant-garde folk a lot
• Travis Scott - darkwave hip hop, I like Rodeo and Utopia
• Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost is his best, but I like Igor more
• Ultravox - new band for me, the album Lament seemed great
• Urfaust - repetitive black metal at its best I can imagine, just listen to Der Zauberer if you like the genre
• Валерий Меладзе [Valeriy Meladze] - it's great when such a talented vocalist as Valery has an equally talented brother, composer Konstantin, I heard this music on the radio at my grandmother's house, and I liked it even then
• Van Halen - Even if you forget about everything related to technique and virtuosity, Van Halen just has a lot of really cool music
• Vladislav Delay - one of the most interesting electronic artists, his album Tummaa was a great discovery for me, it is no longer just dub techno
• Yes - if you haven't heard the song Close to the Edge, I envy you, it's one of the most beautiful songs in history, from beginning to end, I love everything about it

Movies

Come and See, The Thing, Candyman, Scream, Evil Dead II

Television

I watched Breaking Bad, Office, and a couple of other things, but I can't say I loved any of them. Of anime, I like Evangelion, FLCL, Experments Lain, and Gurren Lagann. I actually like a lot more shows for their ideas, but I don't like the execution (for example, Chainsaw Man and Death Note)

Books

• Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
• Mtsiri by Mikhail Lermontov
• Prophet by Alexander Pushkin
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• Stories by Anton Chekhov
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
• Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoevsky

Heroes

People who save other people's lives

Last.fm

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