“Dobio sam sina, posadio sam drvo, napisao sam knjigu — još samo da tebe čujem uživo.”
That YouTube comment captures the emotional weight Filigranski pločnici still carries decades after its release. Forming a document of urban youth, politics, lust, disillusionment, and stubborn idealism, stretched across more than twenty tracks — it’s a sprawling, uneven, and sometimes overwhelming masterpiece. Without hesitation, Filigranski pločnici stands as one of ... read more
Katalena's Meja immediately caught my attention with its album cover: a warm photograph of a car traversing a rain-soaked hill road. It struck me with a sense of melancholy and displacement that the music would then spend forty minutes elaborating on. The concept is the western Slovenian border, a region defined by the paradox of separation and connection, and this geographical premise is fascinating to see realised in sound.
Meja as a whole rewards patience, tracks like Lampeduza, Učja, ... read more
FUCK LIFE is the debut record from the Belgrade outfit, Suplexx. It consists of ten hardcore tracks that filter raw aggression through sludge metal, industrial noise, electronic, and emo. The tagline is VIOLENCE=ELEGANCE, and they mean it.
What makes the band interesting, before you even hear the record, is their origin story. The members draw from indie, shoegaze and DJ backgrounds, with a frontman who moonlights as drummer for post-punk outfit Sv. Pseta. Suplexx is a band that sounds like ... read more
Zabranjeno Pušenje’s second album is broader, catchier and more musically adventurous than their debut — a band expanding outward with confidence, even if it trades some of the perfectly contained chaos that made Das ist Walter so razor sharp.
Partibrejkers’ 1985 debut is an imperfect but essential blueprint — a no-bass, Koja-produced raw statement from the Belgrade underground that captured the band’s punk-blues energy before they fully refined it.