Album (7 lovesongs and a track about the daily routine of an airport) (дословно с англ.: 7 песен о любви и трек про повседневность аэропорта) — альбом группы Hot Zex, выпущенный в июне 2003 года на токийском лейбле Chelsea Girl Records.
К этому времени в составе группы произошли серьёзные изменения: Константин Никонов стал постоянным ударником, а на место покинувшего коллектив Кельмана был приглашен Михаил Гринин. Альбом был составлен из записей, сделанных в период между июлем 1999 г. и мартом 2001 г.
| 1. |
«Skylab Sounds» |
3:55 |
| 2. |
«Around You» |
2:41 |
| 3. |
«Outside» |
5:01 |
| 4. |
«She Could Make Things Perfect» |
4:48 |
| 5. |
«Planets (Version Ⅱ)» |
3:32 |
| 6. |
«40 Miles» |
3:40 |
| 7. |
«30 Minutes Delay» |
3:36 |
| 8. |
«Feel The Light» |
7:01 |
| 34:14 |
Альбом получил очень тёплые отзывы в международной прессе:
We’ll excuse Hot Zex their somewhat naff name as they are Russian. However they do sing in English and they have produced a very British influenced album. There’s liberal pourings of the Stone Roses, House of Love, the Lilac Time and Primal Scream, with an occasional twist of Stereolab. It’s actually pretty good stuff too. — Mawders, Soundsxp.com, UK[1][неавторитетный источник? 2877 дней]
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Super-excellent dreamy and shoegazey pop songs that are absolutely brilliant! Drum machine rhythms keep a steady beat while shimmering melodies, soaring chiming and grinding guitars overlap, breathy vocals carry through the background, atmospheres are created and faded in and out, keyboards swirl aboutthis is top notch stuff! — Clairecords, USA[2]
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Hot Zex is an amazing group from Siberia that you may recall from ages and ages ago when we sold their debut cassette, followed by a fantastic CD that was released in Japan. They should put a big smile on the face of almost any Jesus and Mary Chain fan. — www.tonevendor.com, USA[3]
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The direction of Hot Zex’s sound is visionary noisy guitar pop like whether escape from actual society is urged! If it compares, is it dreamy and the noisy touch with which My Bloody Valentine (Loveless) + Chapterhouse(Pearl) + Rocketship (1st) was united? — Place in the Sun e-zine, Japan[4]
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Hot Zex are a band from Russia and if you’re horny for good music then the lust will be there too as Hot Zex are making excellent indiepopmusic! They know their stuff and they must be influenced by British artists like Momus, House Of Love, Spacemen 3 or My Bloody Valentine as this is the sort of C-86 indiepopsound enriched with some Stereolab-beats and I can only say that fans from Too Pure can only do one thing: contacting Russia as Hot Zex are what I am expecting from music — perfect indiebeats and with a daydreaming touch! Fantastic really! — Didier Becu, The Original Sin, Belgium[5]
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In many ways, these songs are familiar to some of the Crunchy Frog label’s roster (from Denmark), notably Learning From Las Vegas, THAU, and The Mopeds. Fans of these and other similar bands will probably find Hot Zex’s tracks appealing. The music actually has a surprisingly serious tone to it. «She Could Make Things Perfect», for example, is a straightforward love song with songwriting that’s kind of like what Guided By Voices would have sounded like had Tom Pollard grown up on a steady diet of prog rock. «Planets (version II)», meanwhile, is a space rock song with a great melody. You’ll be hooked after one listen. — Matt Shimmer, INDIEVILLE.COM the nonmainstream music webzine, Canada[6]
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That’s Siberia to you and me: And prepare to be confounded again because this is not a selection of icy ambient isolationism, but actually 30 minutes of psychedelic indie rock. This album (their first proper — the 1995 debut SUGARBABIES was limited to a generous 20 copies!) contains eight tracks of melodic, occasionally keyboard-enhanced jangly space rock and on the guitar-tastic AROUND YOU, singer Volodya Komarov sounds like a dead ringer for Tim Wheeler. What’s more, the drum machine intro of OUTSIDE gives way to so much wah-wahing and shuffling that you’d be forgiven for thinking The Charlatans had got themselves a one-way ticket on the Trans-Siberian Express and were paying their way home. But perhaps what is more surprising is how much this album grows on you. The aforementioned OUTSIDE ends in a haze of swooping effects and Stone Roses wig-out, while songs like SHE COULD MAKE THINGS PERFECT, 40 MILES and 30 MINUTES DELAY combine shimmering production with some effectively tight grooves. In all — a strong, solid collection of songs, with lots of moments to grab your attention. Investigation is highly recommended. — Mark Bayross, PHASE9 ENTERTAINMENT, UK[7]
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Hot Zex приобрели культовый статус на родине, а британский журнал Ef-zine назвал «7 lovesongs…» одним из лучших инди-альбомов всех времен. В 2005 году группа выступила на крупных европейских фестивалях Eurosonic (Нидерланды) и Popkomm (Германия).
We caught Hot Zex this past winter, and were floored by their Sonic Youth-meets-My Bloody Valentine-by-way-of-the-Siberian-winter sounds. Since then, the band has been to Europe, and played its biggest Siberian shows ever. Could this be the starting point of shoegazer crossing over into the pop sphere? We don’t know, but we’ll be here with, uh, beers in hand. Psychedelic drugs might also be OK, if you’re into that sort of thing. — Mark Ames, the eXile (Moscow-based alternative newspaper)[8]
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Россия, 
Япония