Combining the street music of its native home of Russia, jug band instrumentation and nods to American pop, Debauche aims to create ramshackle singalongs in both Russian and English. Now based in New Orleans, band members Yegor Romantsov, Eve Kuffner, Jesse Stolzfus, Scott Potts and Vince Schmidt seem to have their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks with covers of songs like Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough." But the accordion, violin, makeshift percussion, polka beats and punky spirit found all over the group's original songs manage to evoke a certain amount of loose and ragged charm.
