Ten years after the controversial “punk prayer” that made them known worldwide, the Russian collective Pussy Riot will release a first album, Matriarchy Nowon August 5th.
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The curious can already listen to the first extract, plastic, whose clip was released this Friday. Playing a terrifying doll, Nadya Tolokonnikova is manipulated by a young boy. “To my them, plastic is a song about a woman who is alienated, eroticized, idolized, idealized, put on a pedestal and destroyed all at once,” the leader of the collective told the magazine. Dazed. Rapper iLoveMakonnen collaborates on this piece with pop and R&B accents.
Produced by singer-songwriter Tove Lo, the seven-track album features guest appearances from other artists, including Slayyyter and Phoebe Ryan.
Over the past few years, Pussy Riot has released a few singles but never a complete album.
August 5, the release date of the album, will mark the 10e anniversary of the two-year prison sentence of three members of Pussy Riot for “hooliganism” and “incitement to religious hatred”. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samoutsevich were arrested by Russian authorities after singing a “punk prayer” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow in February 2012.
Since then, the collective has multiplied protest actions all over the world. Recently, he spoke out against the US Supreme Court ruling on abortion.