Kuvaus
Molchat Doma: Monument
LP
SBR-262, Sacred Bones, USA, 2020
Release Date: 11/13/2020
A1 Utonut’
A2 Obrechen
A3 Discoteque
A4 Ne Smeshno
A5 Otveta Net
B1 Zvezdy
B2 Udalil Tvoy Nomer
B3 Leningradskiy Blues
B4 Lubit’ I Vypolnyat’
Monument is a fitting title for the third album by Belarusian trio Molchat Doma. Indeed, it stands as a monument to everything they’ve achieved in their short time as a band, from whispered-about unknowns, to enigmatic underground icons, to legitimate viral sensations with hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos using their music. Monument sees them return as conquering heroes, expanding on the minimalist greatness of S Krysh Nashikh Domov and Etazhi to fully realize a more maximalist vision of their crystalline post-punk sound.
Written and recorded while the band was quarantined in their hometown of Minsk during the COVID-19 pandemic, Monument is a conscious step up in songwriting and fidelity, and it reveals a band preternaturally comfortable in its own skin. Whether playing to the dancefloor, as they do on the synthpop anthem “Discoteque,” or working more introspectively on pre-pandemic live favorites “Otveta Net” and “Ne Smeshno,” Molchat Doma are in complete control. Their greatest strength has always been their songwriting, and they’ve only gotten better.
