Andy Nechaevsky - Secret Life of Button Boxes: Red Box
Released: April 28 On his first release of 2026, Ukrainian artist and kalimba builder Andy Nechaevsky brings us an album of tracks that broadcast his own personal nostalgia for home. He describes this home as something almost magical, recounting the various fuzzy memories from his very early childhood and describing them in the detail he can remember. This description is rather poignant to the album as well because Nechaevsky imbued each track with that same sense of magical recollection of childhood memories. Each song has a sense of whimsy to it, feeling like a sort of melancholic fairy tale quite often throughout the album. “Leave the nightlight on, please” is a perfect example of the melancholic vibe as deep cello notes signal a looming sense of dread and the kalimbas play a coherent but ever so slightly disjointed rhythm. The kalimbas are really quite the focus on much of the album, understandably so as several of them were custom built and assembeled together by Nechae...
