Thresh (album)

A trash is something that goes beyond good and evil. Something completely indescribable. Not rubbish in its pure form, but something ... terrible, close to extreme horror

- Gleb Samoilov for Open.Space.ru, October 5, 2011 ^[5]

Speaking of texts, for me he (the album) turned out to be even more frank and personal. Musically, he is more guitar than electronic, rather heavy. And I would call our style “neo-post-Gothic” again - this fits both the first album and the second.

- Gleb Samoilov for Vesti.Ru, October 3, 2011 ^[6]

Work on the disc lasted from January to August 2011. The album has 16 tracks. The sound of the group has changed to a more “guitar” side, the number of keyboards has become noticeably smaller ^[7] .

The album was released in a regular, limited and fan edition. The limited edition ^[8] included a DVD recording of the group’s concert in the Waiting Room club with the program “Beautifully Cruel” on May 15, 2011 ^[9] . The fan edition, in addition to the limited edition, contained the issue of RockOracle - The Dark Culture Magazine ^[10] with an interview by Gleb Samoilov and autographs of all members of the group, an icon, a postcard with a photo of the group and a postcard that was attached to the limited edition of the album “ Beautifully Cruel ” as bonus.

In the design of the disc used the work of Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt ^[11] . The word "Tresh" is written through the letter "e" to enhance the aesthetic effect of the cover ^{[12] [13]} .

Video clips were shot for three songs of the album: “Make Bombs” ^[12] , “Cosmos” ^{[14] [15]} and “We Are Under Fire” ^[16] actively broadcast on music television channels.

On September 28, 2011, a press conference was held on the release of Tresh ^{[17] [18]} , and the album was presented at the Moscow club P! PL on October 1 ^[19] .

The album was posted for free download on the band’s official website ^[20] .

Duet with Alexei Nikonov

- The song “Make bombs, not sex” can bring you under a criminal article.

- In the song, I do not call, but, on the contrary, regret this trend. The era of flowers is over. “Peace to the world” is in the past. Now everything is decided by bombs - bombs of aggressor states, bombs of terrorists.

- Gleb Samoilov for the weekly “Arguments of the Week", July 19, 2012 ^[21]

A joint project with Aleksey Nikonov was planned for several years, "How it ripened - so ripened" ^[22] . The whole process of working on the song took about five hours ^[23] , was shot on video and became the basis of the clip ^[24] . At concerts, the song sounded only three times, separately neither Gleb nor Aleksey Nikonov performed it ^[23] .

DVD

• Sound producer - Ilya Zaichenko;
• Light - Alexander Taushkanov;
• Percussion Technician - Dmitry Arkhipov;
• Guitar Technician - Ismail Salikhov;
• The organizer of the concert is Igor Chernomor;
• Shooting and editing - television company "Nevsky Express" NEVEX.TV;
• DVD authoring - Andrey Kaplev.
• The live concert was recorded on May 15, 2011 in St. Petersburg at the Waiting Room club as part of the Beautiful Cruelty tour.

• Gleb Samoilov - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards;
• Dmitry "Snake" Hakimov - drums;
• Konstantin Bekrev - keyboards, programming, bass, vocals;
• Valery Arkadin is a guitar.

Guest Musicians

• Alexey Nikonov - vocals “Make bombs” (Music and lyrics by Gleb Samoilov and Alexey Nikonov ).

• Recorded and mixed at Dreamport Studios.
• Sound producer - Maxim Samosvat ;
• Pro-tools - Vladimir Nasonov;
• Mastering - Andrey Subbotin;
• Design - Evgeny Nepryakhin;
• Photo - Svetlana Zabelina;
• Photo processing - Yana Chernetsova.
• The design used paintings by Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt : “Burn Everything”, “Sevastopol Russian City” and “Our boot is holy.”
• The author of all the songs in the album is Gleb Samoilov , except for the track “Make Bombs” (Music and lyrics by Gleb Samoilov and Alexey Nikonov ).

• The song "Cosmobombs" is a rearranged version of the song "Cosmos (Falls on Us)" from the unreleased solo album of Gleb Samoilov " Sviy100plyaska ". In the new version, the couplets were performed by Konstantin Bekrev ^[8] .
• In the spring of 2011, they wrote on the net that a clip would be shot for the song “Danger”, and Anastasia Volochkova would take part in the filming, the idea belonged to Ekaterina Gordon ^[25] . This information was confirmed by the group ^[26] . However, it was later announced that “there will be no video with Volochkova” ^[27] .
• “Cosmobombs” and “We Are Under Fire” were re-recorded in new acoustic arrangements featuring percussion, string and wind instruments for the Light acoustic album .
• In the Light album and in the limited edition of the Tresh album on DVD, the song “We Are Under Fire” has the shortened name “Under Fire”.

Many critics saw Tresh as a continuation of The Brutal Fine. ^[28]

Opinions on the second album, as well as on the first, diverged from “music compared to“ Beautiful Cruelty ”is very often simply banal, songs that are called“ don’t catch ”...” ^[20] and up to “they sound easily comparable to the best Western samples ” ^[7] , about the texts - from“ not without reason and the album has such a name, and the track of the same name can be taken as some kind of recognition that “yes, they say, not a fountain“. The refrain refrain “Mudatka film - horror, Mudatka film - porn” can be taken simply for a brief retelling of the main songs from the album. The subjects of the lyrics range from pedophilia and homosexuality to, it seems, just an absurd set of words ” ^[20] to“ very diverse and deep work ” ^[28] and“ one of the most interesting and controversial records in Russian rock music ” ^[29] .

• The album "Tresh" on the official website of The Matrixx
• Booklet with the lyrics of the album "Tresh"
• "Gleb Samoiloff & the Matrixx." Album "TRESH": from trash to treasure
• Gleb Samoilov about album songs
• Thresh Album on Discogs.com