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Love\'n\'joy - "Psy Summer" from the 2022 self-released album Half Home.

Kyiv-based band Love\\u2019n\\u2019Joy completed their latest album Half Home just three days before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Vocalist/guitarist Anton Pushkar explained to Psychdelic Baby Magazine, "The idea of \\u200b\\u200bthe album title was mainly connected with the loss of Crimea, the place where me and Sergey (Zlobin, drummer) were born and raised and where our relatives live under russian occupation. After the events of February 24, when we had to leave our native Kyiv, this feeling multiplied.\\u201d

While touring in support of the new LP, the band established the Musicians Defend Ukraine fund, a way for them to support "Ukrainian artists who defend their cities and work as volunteers."\\xa0

\\u201cDifferent parts of the world [are] trying to support somehow,\\u201d Pushkar told Kerrang. \\u201c[You] can sell your records, collect money, organise a show \\u2013 there\\u2019s lots of options available. And for [promoters] you can also just have a Ukrainian band play, because I guess all of the bands who are outside the Ukraine right now are raising money. We have a really big volunteer movement in Ukraine, and in a really horrible time it\\u2019s really nice to know and a really warm feeling that everybody cares for each other. And to see how people from Europe and U.S. help us, that\\u2019s really important.\\u201d

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