Комсомольск, 19 November 2022

Комсомольск (Komsomolsk) is a Russian indie group founded in 2017 in Moscow. Currently it consists of four musicians. In ironic lyrics, the band combines timeless themes with signs of the present, putting lines on the major guitar pop music. In 2020, the quartet released their first full-length album "Ближний Свет" (Near Light), which differs from previous releases in greater emotionality and complexity of sound.
The history of the Komsomolsk group began with the acquaintance of Daria Deryugina, Ivan Ryabov and Arina Andreeva in 2015, long before the release of the first joint works. A few months later, Daria suggested that Ivan and Arina create a Russian-speaking musical group, and they agreed. The participants chose the name intuitively - the choice fell on the "Komsomolsk" proposed by Ivan Ryabov. A little later, Ilya Lopatin joined the band as a drummer. With this composition in 2016, the group began rehearsals.
The band released their debut mini-album "Комсомольск-1" (Komsomolsk-1) in 2017. The presentation of the mini-album took place on June 21, 2017 at a joint concert with the group "Любовь и Роботы" (Love and Robots). From the first performance, multi-colored wigs of girls became an invariable element of the group's stage image. One of the reasons for the appearance of wigs at concerts was Daria's desire to distinguish between her two projects: the Russian-language Komsomolsk and the English-language "Gin&Milk", founded before the appearance of Komsomolsk.