New York, NY (Top40 Charts) "I ended up taking their record to bed with me and now I'm going to have its children!" - NME
"Listening to a Ukrainians album is like attending the mother of all parties" - Q
Listed as one of MOJO magazine's '20 Landmark Peel Sessions' alongside Pink Floyd, The Buzzcocks, Nirvana and The White Stripes, The Ukrainians are revolutionary - creating their intoxicating cocktail of traditional Ukrainian music and British Indie pop way before the term 'world music' had even been coined.
Accompanying track 'Koly Ya Tantsyuyu (When I Dance)', taken from their new explosive album 'Summer in Lviv', The Ukrainains have released a classic Walt Disney style animation whose slap stick comedy encapsulates the band's joyous sense of bringing people together.
A journey to fame that kicked off with fellow band The Wedding Present, Len Liggins along with Roman Remeynes and Stepan Pasicznyk splintering off to form The Ukrainians, the world's first, some might say only, practitioners of Ukrainian folk-punk. From then on the rest has been history, teaming up with legendary John Peel and performing on multiple infamous 'John Peel Sessions', The Ukrainians continue to infuse an excitement that draws on both Ukrainian folk music and western rock music.
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