Pressure (Open Space album)

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| rev1 = Budzma Belarusians!

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| rev2 = Experty.by

| rev2Score = {{Rating|7.25|10}}

| rev3 = Rolling Stone Russia

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Author of the Ultra-Music music portal Alieh Labunski witnessed musicians’ commitment to the indie rock flow, the course taken with the release of the previous album Deal With Silence, and got a notion that "almost all of the songs go abreast, each one is not worse but not better than another," while Bryan Adams and New Order possible inspired the band members during the recording.{{Cite web|url=http://ultra-music.com/articles/releases/7994|title=Open Space "Pressure"|last=Лабунский|first=Олег|date=March 26, 2012|publisher=Ultra-Music|language=ru|trans-title=Open Space «Pressure»|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616062050/http://ultra-music.com/articles/releases/7994|archivedate=June 16, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=June 16, 2019}}

The staff critics of the music portal Experty.by appointed to the work an average rating of 7.25/10: Siarhei Budkin highlighted "underlined Englishness" of the British rock performed by the guys, whose works reminded him The Cranbirries, "work on the errors" of Deal With Silence, according to Zmicer Bezkaravayny, was done, and the quality of melodic Britpop songs rose to yet another level, including thanks to the efforts of guest producer Dmitry Ivaney, known for his work with the DDT and Okean Elzy bands, Aleh Klimay's review allowed to equate the pop-rock of the musicians of the British wave, who grew up, with the works of a-ha, The Rolling Stones, U2, and Depeche Mode, and Zmicer Padbyarezski echoed his words ("the musicians have clearly brought up not so much to the overall level, as just grown up").{{Cite web|url=http://www.experty.by/content/open-space-pressure-audio|title=Open Space "Pressure" (+аудио)|date=April 27, 2012|accessdate=June 16, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616065023/http://www.experty.by/content/open-space-pressure-audio|archivedate=June 16, 2019|url-status=live|publisher=Experty.by|language=ru|trans-title=Open Space "Pressure" (+audio)}}

The latter one as a music editor over at ej.by unfolded the essence of the CD and concluded that it has mainstream songs that would have been possible to air in abundance, and separately praised the "potential schlager" "I Have A Dream."{{Cite web|url=https://ej.by/music/songs/I_have_a_dream.html|title=I Have a Dream|last=Подберезский|first=Дмитрий|publisher=ej.by|language=ru|trans-title=I Have a Dream|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616072732/https://ej.by/music/songs/I_have_a_dream.html|archivedate=June 16, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=June 16, 2019}} He drew attention to the fact that, with this album, Open Space may well compete with their English-speaking Western colleagues on the waves of "spoiled by the state regulation" Belarusian radio stations.{{Cite web|url=https://ej.by/music/albums/pressure.html|title=Pressure|last=Подберезский|first=Дмитрий|publisher=ej.by|language=ru|trans-title=Pressure|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618182027/https://ej.by/music/albums/pressure.html|archivedate=June 18, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=June 18, 2019}}

In his 4-star CD review, music critic of Rolling Stone Russia Andrey Bukharin concluded that the style of songs on the album is between Post-punk and Britpop, criticized "averaging" but also noted "the European quality" of the disc with works that will be liked by the fans of the U2, Radiohead, Placebo or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club bands.{{Cite journal|last=Бухарин|first=Андрей|date=April 21, 2012|title=Open Space – "Pressure"|url=http://rollingstone.ru/articles/music/review/11150.html|url-status=dead|journal=Rolling Stone Russia|language=ru|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515013354/http://rollingstone.ru/articles/music/review/11150.html|archivedate=May 15, 2012|accessdate=May 15, 2012}}

In its review article, the music portal Tuzin.fm called the album a "perfect counterfeit" and comprehended the existence of a significant association of the compositions with the United Kingdom and its Indie rock heritage.{{Cite web|url=http://mpby.ru/news-3532.htm|title=Бездакорная падробка ад Open Space|date=April 18, 2012|work=Tuzin.fm|publisher=mpby.ru|language=be|trans-title=Impeccable forgery by Open Space|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616082638/http://mpby.ru/news-3532.htm|archivedate=June 16, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=June 16, 2019}} Aleh Klimay as a columnist for Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, highlighting domestic albums for the first seven months of 2012 that are worthy of adding to the personal music libraries of readers, among the songs on the disc, also found "many references to the British wave" produced in the styles of pop rock and rock.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sb.by/articles/novye-geroi-zvukozapisi.html|title=Новые герои звукозаписи|last=Климов|first=Олег|date=August 1, 2012|website=|publisher=Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya|language=ru|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609174211/https://www.sb.by/articles/novye-geroi-zvukozapisi.html|archivedate=June 9, 2019|accessdate=February 2, 2020}} European Radio for Belarus described the album as "easy to understand" and paid respect to sound producer Dmitry Ivaney for the "much stronger, refined, grown-up" quality of sound in its overview too.{{Cite web|url=https://euroradio.fm/open-space-pressure|title=Open Space "Pressure"|date=April 12, 2012|publisher=European Radio for Belarus|language=be|trans-title=Open Space “Pressure”|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616083546/https://euroradio.fm/open-space-pressure|archivedate=June 16, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=June 16, 2019}}

The second album, which turned out to be better than the previous one, according to Hagnir of nneformat.ru, because "almost every song out of eleven can claim to be a hit," strengthened the reputation of "an almost standard Brit-pop band."{{Cite web|url=http://www.nneformat.ru/reviews/?id=7279|title="Ситка Пит 2012-04" (VIDEATAPE, Ms. Sounday, OUTLANDS, OPEN SPACE, THE DECOMPOSERS, Ykwim и др.)|last=Хагнир|date=December 18, 2012|website=|publisher=nneformat.ru|language=ru|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205205650/http://www.nneformat.ru/reviews/?id=7279|archivedate=December 5, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=July 22, 2020}} In his review article, Mikita Broŭka from the weekly Novy Chas criticized the band for making the version of the song "Let It Go" rewritten in the Kyiv studio of Dmitry Ivaney more primitive in comparison with the one from the eponymous EP and assessed that the album was more even in sound than the first one while the musicians drew a line under their past English-language creativity with it.{{Cite web|url=https://novychas.by/kultura/ndi_pachatku_dvanaccataga|title=Інды пачатку дванаццатага|last=Броўка|first=Мікіта|date=April 11, 2012|website=|publisher=Novy Chas|language=be|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209160651/https://novychas.by/kultura/ndi_pachatku_dvanaccataga|archivedate=February 9, 2020|accessdate=February 9, 2020}} Nasha Niva’s Juraś Uskoŭ summed up the assessment of domestic experts, "Pop band Open Space continues to improve. The second album sounds more serious than the debut album. Almost all the songs can be aired on radio – and that, in this case, is a compliment."{{Cite web|url=https://nn.by/?c=ar&i=81455|title=Музычныя вынікі паўгоддзя: наперадзе "Срэбнае вяселле"|last=Ускоў|first=Юрась|date=October 2, 2012|website=|publisher=Nasha Niva|language=be|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223053558/https://nn.by/?c=ar&i=81455|archivedate=February 23, 2020|accessdate=February 23, 2020}}

The album was selected in several tops of CDs released in its span, including ones by the version of Experty.by, personal music critics Aleh Klimay and Zmicer Padbyarezski (all of them for the first half of 2012),{{Cite web|url=http://www.experty.by/content/luchshie-albomy-2012-top-10-za-pervoe-polugodie-audio|title=Лучшие альбомы 2012: топ-10 за первое полугодие (+аудио)|date=October 8, 2012|accessdate=June 16, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616164438/http://www.experty.by/content/luchshie-albomy-2012-top-10-za-pervoe-polugodie-audio|archivedate=June 16, 2019|url-status=live|publisher=Experty.by|language=ru|trans-title=Best albums of 2012: top 10 for the first half of the year (+audio)}} as well as Julija Kalamijec's one (top 10 Belarusian albums of 2012).{{Cite web|url=http://www.experty.by/content/yuliya-kolomiets-ukraina-lichnyi-top-10-belorusskikh-albomov-za-2012-god-audio|title=Юлия Коломиец (Украина): личный топ-10 белорусских альбомов за 2012 год (+аудио)|last=Коломиец|first=Юлия|date=April 18, 2013|publisher=Experty.by|language=ru|trans-title=Julia Kolomiets (Ukraine): personal top 10 Belarusian albums for 2012 (+audio)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616165110/http://www.experty.by/content/yuliya-kolomiets-ukraina-lichnyi-top-10-belorusskikh-albomov-za-2012-god-audio|archivedate=June 16, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=June 16, 2019}}

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Open Space:

• Vitaliy Matievskiy – vocals, guitars.
• Maxim Mestovskiy – guitars.
• Seva Maslov – bass.
• Andrey Malashenko – drums, percussion.

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Production:

• Dmitry Ivaney – mixing and mastering, sound production, arrangements.
• Dzianis Varancoŭ – sound production, arrangements.
• Open Space – sound production, arrangements.
• Paviel Traciak – arrangements.
• Piotr Siemianiuk – arrangements.
• Vasiĺ Sierbin – vocal recording engineer.
• Maxim Mestovskiy – CD cover design.

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In 2014 the band Sunny Days sang the cover "Heta Niaprosta" of the song "Do You Remember."{{Cite video|publisher=Capital TV|title=CTV.BY: "Звездный ринг" на СТВ. Финал 05.07.2014|language=be|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsnVuW-oe9E&feature=youtu.be&t=2600|accessdate=December 22, 2018|date=July 7, 2014|trans-title=CTV.BY: “Celebrity Ring” on CTV. Final 05.07.2014}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ctv.by/na-telekanala-stv-v-ramkah-zvezdnogo-ringa-vybrali-luchshiy-kaver-bend-belarusi|title=На телеканале СТВ в рамках "Звездного ринга" выбрали лучший кавер-бэнд Беларуси|date=July 7, 2014|publisher=Capital TV|language=ru|trans-title=On the CTV channel, within the framework of the “Star Ring,” the best cover band of Belarus was chosen|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619094403/http://www.ctv.by/na-telekanala-stv-v-ramkah-zvezdnogo-ringa-vybrali-luchshiy-kaver-bend-belarusi|archivedate=June 19, 2019|url-status=live|accessdate=June 19, 2019}}

{{reflist}}

• [https://osband.bandcamp.com Download the album (Bandcamp)]

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Category:2012 albums

Category:Open Space (band) albums

Category:Psychedelic rock albums

Category:Post-punk albums