Pussy Riot's music can often be very abrasive given the group's punk backgrounds, but for their latest song, "Chaika," the female troupe has opted for a more pop oriented sound that still attacks Russian politics with the same ferocity of previous works.
In November, the group released the song "Refugees In," tackling the hot topic of the Syrian refugee crisis and shooting the music video from street artist Banksy's "Bemusement Park."
According to Consequence of Sound, this time around, the group is taking on corruption in Russia and calling out the country's prosecutor general, Yuri Chaika, as well as Vladimir Putin himself.
"Anyone who talks too much will be buried alive/ Anyone who f---s around will enjoy time in jail/ I don't think Navalny or Pavlensky will bother you anymore, Vladimir," the group sings referring first to the lawyer and political activist known for fighting corruption as well as the nihilistic artist who nailed his scrotum to the Red Square back in 2013.
The song was produced by Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio, and the video, which depicts some not so subtle imagery of the women torturing prisoners and eating heartily from the metaphorical turkey leg of Russia, was directed by Andrey Fenøčka and the band's own Nadya Tolokonnikova.
Watch below.
Speaking to the question of what language to record in, Tolokonnikova had this to say about choosing Sitek as the song's producer: "Dave has three huge fluffy dogs and two cats resembling tiny cautious leopards. Dave knows how to talk to them, and his cats and dogs in their turn can sing accompanied by different musical instruments. That is why it is absolutely not important in what language you are composing a track together with Dave. You could write in English or in Russian, or simply mew like Run The Jewels."
