Ukrainian garage: the sound and songs of PATSYKI Z FRANEKA

The band calls its genre Ukrainian garage: electronic music with hip-hop elements and folk motifs. A song starts with a beat. The members say they build the beat first and then work on the idea together. Nazar Khudyn is formally listed as the author of every track, and he says everything is made collectively. The song Kyiv appeared after Lola remarked that a beat sounded like it was breathing the capital.

Lola sings and plays the bandura. The sopilka and the tambourine were already on stage at the band's first performance, and Nazar came out with a saxophone. Lola says she does not sing in a folk voice. The folklore arrives through melodies and instrument timbres, while electronic beats keep the rhythm. The songs are in Ukrainian. In 2018 Nazar said the band thinks and sings in Ukrainian, even though Kyiv is a bilingual city. Nazar studied linguistics and sang in a church choir as a child, according to a concert listing.

The same year he compared the band's songs to hedgehogs. Radio wanted soft love songs, he said, and PATSYKI Z FRANEKA write prickly ones, and he had no plan to change the style for airplay. The first hit, VasЯ OMG, tells a story of spring, girls and the chestnut trees on Khreshchatyk. Kaifova describes a man who hides his feelings for a woman. For its video the band held castings at concerts: fans sang fragments of the song on camera, and the clips with the most views on Instagram were meant to go into the video. In Lviv the audience asked for Ty moya as an encore. Apple Music dates VasЯ OMG, Kaifova, Muzyko hraj! and Ty moya, recorded with ILLYA LETAY, to 2018. Critics have compared the band to Klavdia Petrovna, Vremya i Steklo and Jason Derulo. The members took it hard at first and now take it calmly.

Marichka became the calling card of the following years, and the official channel carries a lyric video for it. In 2021 the band released ZhovtoSyni, a single tied to the Ukrainian national team's appearance at UEFA EURO 2020.

In 2022 the mini-album Povstanski pisni came out with folk songs that descriptions date to 1914. Namalovana followed in 2024. Apple Music lists Serce in 2025 with two remixes, one by santexx and one by Ipunkz and Lola, then Nakrylo the same year. The 2026 entries on that page are Natusia, Vesnianka and Use ide, use mynaie.