Blog: Spinner.com

Filed under: Around the World The Ukrainians still aren't. Ukrainians, that is. Closing in on 20 years from its beginning, the band remains what it has always been -- a compelling English folk-rock ensemble, spun off from the Leeds post-punk phenom the Wedding Present to give some boisterous rock-informed treatment to tunes with Ukrainian roots and/or inspiration. And still, with a new album, 'Diaspora' (released by the band's Zirka Records and in the U.S. on Omnium Recordings ), quite good at it, as you can plainly hear in [...]