Отстой is from Saint Petersburg, Russia and as far as it seems it’s only one guy doing druggy psych music in a garage, or a bedroom…or on the bathroom floor, it’s quite hard to tell. He definitely gains inspiration from the average noisy US-influenced garage revival bands but he adds his own under-the-influence Eastern vision and as a result you get the kind of music Kevin Failure would lick all his fingernails from tip to toe (thanks to DrugPunk blog for introducing Отстой to me, by the way).

I had the strange feeling while listening to Отстой’s EP that the first track even has some influences from hispanic RNR, then we go on with a bit of neo-psychedelia but the spirit of Russian punk god (and the father of  shitty-fuzzy guitar sound) Yegor Letov is constantly with us – crazy, isn’t it!? The Russian punk scene seems to have a fucking great time with bands like Sonic death, Wavepool Abortion who take Western music and just spit it against the wall – if you lack the originality in American music, Russian punks are your way too!