The band Stoptime’s album has disappeared from Russian and foreign streaming platforms. At the end of last week, Yandex Music removed one of the songs at Roskomnadzor’s demand

The band Stoptime’s album has disappeared from Russian and foreign streaming platforms. At the end of last week, Yandex Music removed one of the songs at Roskomnadzor’s demand

The debut release, Into Nowhere from Nowhere, was first removed from Russian platforms, including Yandex Music and VK Music, the band’s leader Diana “Naoko” Loginova said on the group’s Telegram channel. Then the album disappeared from foreign streaming platforms as well: on Spotify the tracks do not play, and on Apple Music they do not appear. “We’re trying to find out what happened, but so far we don’t even have any guesses,” the musicians wrote. Earlier, Yandex Music blocked the song “Why?” at Roskomnadzor’s request.

When the album started disappearing from streaming services, the band uploaded all the songs to its Telegram channel.

Diana Loginova, together with guitarist Aleksandr Orlov, left Russia after a series of carousel arrests. The musicians were detained for singing songs by “foreign agents” on the streets of St. Petersburg.

In detail, Loginova and Orlov told What Happened host Vladislav Gorin about how they adapted to emigration and how Noize MC helped them record their first album. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel.

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