-
Download
$9.99320 kbps, LAME-encoded
Genres
If Moot! was an “experiment to experience”, then the latest album from UK-based three-piece Moin is a considered exploration digging deep into the memory banks. AD 93 gleefully crept into the world of rock with Moot!, and the grunge / rave fusions of IVVVO’s Bleached Butterfly; now only a year after their debut LP, Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead of Raime and prolific percussionist Valentina Magaletti return to the label, taking the language of alternative rock to new heights on Paste.
Not much is offered by way of explanation, rather it’s clear that Moin let the music do the talking. Andrews and Halstead started the side project in 2012, their split single ‘Elsie’ (with the multi-talented Pete Swanson) landed on Blackest Ever Black, followed by a self-titled EP the next year. It was a marked step away from their dark, instinctual breed of industrialised techno, a handful of metal-leaning post-punk tracks offered wordlessly and viscerally. The project lay dormant until eight years later, when the arrival of Valentina Magaletti signalled a brighter, more refined direction, and creative evolution both for Moin and their new home of AD 93.
With Paste, the refinement of the band’s sound comes to an all time high, an exciting prospect when their debut album was released just a year ago. Scuzzy guitars and live drums take centre stage in an examination of alternative guitar music, from indie pop to grunge with minimalist flair. The band’s cut and paste ethos is made evident in the impressionistic monologues of stitched vocal samples drifting throughout. Sourced from the likes of 80s spoken word compilations documenting the Los Angeles punk poetry scene, they add contextual colour to sonic collages that swing between sweet teenage nostalgia and manipulated chaos, reading like obscure film dialogues, eccentric interviews, and private messages left waiting in an answering machine, all cut up and slurred. ‘Hung Up’ is a clear example, its crystalline guitar harmonics punctuated by despondent strums and anxious, staccato drums, like a hopeful message transmitted down telephone wires ending in melodramatic miscommunication.
‘Forgetting Is Like Syrup’ takes this effect even further, constructing a musical and verbal map of abstraction with discordant guitars and vocals liquefied into a thick, caramelised solution, meanwhile ‘In A Tizzy’ sits opposite with a playback of wistful memories torn up by the fangs of nylon buzzes. In a particular act of juxtaposition, the warm distortion of gutturally blown out guitars on ‘Melon’ is painted in sunrise colours, yet sits behind words uttered with teeth bared.
Even without the context of these vocal montages, Moin’s performances are highly evocative: ticking percussion and molten bass mark the languid passing of time on ‘Life Choices’ and the similarly sludged out, vaporific ‘Sink’, while drums pace like careful footsteps on ‘Foot Wrong’, with harpsichord-esque guitar plucks adding to the tension. Trumpeting elephantine sounds and primal rhythms give the track an air of mystery, like spelunking in a deep cave where all of Moin’s disparate sources and inspirations lay in wait.
Though Moin’s sparse alternative rock palettes and electronic manipulations have been compared to legendary bands like Fugazi and Slint, their own experimentations come from a whole other angle, musically and geographically. Citing jungle and rave just as much as psych and post-punk, Paste cements the trio as exciting innovators in the new lexicon of modern rock music.
Mastered and cut by Noel Summerville
Artwork by Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead
Mixed at Hackney Road Studios
Digital Tracklist
-
1
Foot Wrong
4:49
Buy
Foot Wrong
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
2
Melon
4:16
Buy
Melon
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
3
Yep Yep
5:20
Buy
Yep Yep
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
4
Forgetting is Like Syrup
4:15
Buy
Forgetting is Like Syrup
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
5
In a Tizzy
3:22
Buy
In a Tizzy
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
6
Knuckle
5:00
Buy
Knuckle
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
7
Hung Up
4:21
Buy
Hung Up
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
8
Life Choices
5:04
Buy
Life Choices
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
9
Sink
5:33
Buy
Sink
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
Moin
-
- Artist
- Moin
- ReleaseProduct
- Lapsed
- Label
- Kuboraum Editions
- Catalogue Number
- RAUM003S4
- Release Date
- April 4, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Moin
- ReleaseProduct
- Clocked Off
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT066
- Release Date
- July 5, 2023
- Download
-
- Artist
- Moin
- ReleaseProduct
- Melon / Yep Yep
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT052S12
- Release Date
- October 5, 2022
- Download
-
- Artist
- Moin
- ReleaseProduct
- EP
- Label
- Blackest Ever Black
- Catalogue Number
- BLACKEST021
- Release Date
- September 30, 2013
- Download
AD 93
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Lanark Artefax
- ReleaseProduct
- Metallur
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT078
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- EP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Martha Skye Murphy and Roy Montgomery
- ReleaseProduct
- Need
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT077S1
- Release Date
- April 17, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lanark Artefax
- ReleaseProduct
- Meszthread
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT078SS
- Release Date
- April 9, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lanark Artefax
- ReleaseProduct
- Metallur
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT078S
- Release Date
- March 20, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Jasmine Wood
- ReleaseProduct
- Piano Reverb
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT074
- Release Date
- March 8, 2024
- Cassette
- Download
-
- Artist
- Olof Dreijer
- ReleaseProduct
- Coral
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT071
- Release Date
- March 6, 2024
- EP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Jasmine Wood
- ReleaseProduct
- VII
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT074S
- Release Date
- February 14, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Olof Dreijer
- ReleaseProduct
- Coral
- Label
- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT071S
- Release Date
- February 7, 2024
- Download
Alternative / Indie / Post-rock
-
- Artist
- Vanishing Twin
- ReleaseProduct
- You Are Not an Island (Version)
- Label
- Fire Records
- Catalogue Number
- FIRE562X_S2
- Release Date
- April 25, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- mui zyu
- ReleaseProduct
- the rules of what an earthling can be
- Label
- Father/Daughter Records
- Catalogue Number
- FD127DIG4
- Release Date
- April 23, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Maria Chiara Argiro
- ReleaseProduct
- Closer
- Label
- Innovative Leisure
- Catalogue Number
- 810874027146
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- pigbaby
- ReleaseProduct
- i don't care if anyone listens to this shit once you do
- Label
- PLZ Make It Ruins
- Catalogue Number
- PLZ050D
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yosa Peit
- ReleaseProduct
- Gut Buster
- Label
- Fire Records
- Catalogue Number
- FIRE704
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Crumb
- ReleaseProduct
- The Bug
- Label
- Crumb Records
- Catalogue Number
- CR004DIG5
- Release Date
- April 24, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Metronomy, Naima Bock and Joshua Idehen
- ReleaseProduct
- With Balance
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS676W
- Release Date
- April 23, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin
- ReleaseProduct
- Ghosted II
- Label
- Drag City
- Catalogue Number
- DC917
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- LP
- Download
Limited Editions
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- El Michels Affair
- ReleaseProduct
- Enter The 37th Chamber
- Label
- Fat Beats Records
- Catalogue Number
- FB-5127-2
- Release Date
- May 7, 2009
- LP (special)
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- FONTAINES D.C.
- ReleaseProduct
- Romance
- Label
- XL Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- XL1436DA
- Release Date
- August 23, 2024
- LP (special)
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Paul W. Teebrooke, Stasis
- ReleaseProduct
- Time Sensitive: Unreleased Sounds From The Otherworld Archives
- Label
- De:tuned
- Catalogue Number
- 5414180240470
- Release Date
- May 31, 2024
- 12”
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- ENC
- ReleaseProduct
- Surreal Estate
- Label
- ENC
- Catalogue Number
- ENCSE1
- Release Date
- May 10, 2024
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- Röyksopp & Robyn
- ReleaseProduct
- Do It Again
- Label
- Dog Triumph
- Catalogue Number
- DOG007
- Release Date
- May 23, 2014
- LP (special)
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Actress
- ReleaseProduct
- Statik
- Label
- Smalltown Supersound
- Catalogue Number
- STS428DIGITAL
- Release Date
- June 7, 2024
- LP (special)
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Simon Fisher Turner
- ReleaseProduct
- Instability of the Signal
- Label
- Mute
- Catalogue Number
- ISTUMM504
- Release Date
- August 2, 2024
- LP (special)
- Download
Album of the Week
-
- Artist
- Luke Vibert / Posthuman
- ReleaseProduct
- Unitary Covert Sonic Procedures IV
- Label
- Balkan Vinyl
- Catalogue Number
- Cat: BV45R
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- EP
-
- Artist
- DMX Krew
- ReleaseProduct
- Spiral Dance
- Label
- Hypercolour
- Catalogue Number
- HYPELP026
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Clarissa Connelly
- ReleaseProduct
- World of Work
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD370
- Release Date
- April 12, 2024
- LP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Mount Kimbie
- ReleaseProduct
- The Sunset Violent
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD350
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Kelly Moran
- ReleaseProduct
- Moves in the Field
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD362
- Release Date
- March 29, 2024
- LP (special)
- CD
- Bundle
- Download
-
- Artist
- Jlin
- ReleaseProduct
- Akoma
- Label
- Planet Mu Records Ltd.
- Catalogue Number
- ZIQ460
- Release Date
- March 22, 2024
- LP
- Bundle
- Download
-
- Artist
- Four Tet
- ReleaseProduct
- Three
- Label
- Text Records
- Catalogue Number
- TEXT056D
- Release Date
- March 15, 2024
- LP
- CD
- Bundle
- Download
-
- Artist
- Soichi Terada
- ReleaseProduct
- Apes In The Net
- Label
- Far East Recording
- Catalogue Number
- FER 06903
- Release Date
- February 23, 2024
- EP