Pussy Riot are making protest music for the end times

As Nadya Tolokonnikova shares Pussy Riot’s first full-length album, CYKA, she talks about losing hope, staging an anti-Russian protest at the Venice Biennale, and conspiracy theories that the group is a CIA psy-op

Pussy Riot are making protest music for the end times
Pussy Riot

There’s a track on the first full-length album from Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, CYKA, titled “Utopia” – featuring the singer-songwriter Salem Ilese, it’s a moment of relative hope among a tracklist of aggressive punk and apocalyptic hip hop. “It’s ironic. The song was written a few years ago,” Tolokonnikova tells Dazed. “I had some thoughts about utopia three or four years ago, but not any more. I don’t really have ahellip;

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