Surfing the blurry border between pop and art performance, R&D has fun in mixing together field recordings, sleazy beats, and explicit lyrics. The duo was formed in 2018 by Emilia Kurylowicz, artist and filmmaker from Poland and Maru Mushtrieva, a writer from Russia. The style of their conceptual band is best defined by lyrics that should be taken with a grain of salt, eclectic sounds, and conceptual props. In 2021 they released their first album "Semi-Famous" that was accompanied by a webseries called "THE SEMI-SHOW"
