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English trio Moin
(Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead, Valentina Magaletti)
straddled the border of
post-rock, hardcore, minimalism, glitch electronica
on Moot (2021), a
mostly instrumental album (save some annoying spoken-word recitations).
Theirs is a post-dada art of loops and collage that leaves songs intentionally
unfinished, incomplete, drained of passion or purpose.
The repetitive hard-rock riffs of
Crappy Dreams Count and An Utter Stink
never release the looming energy.
The haunting Lungs,
the spastic suspenseful soundscape of Right Is Alright Wrong Is to Belong
and especially the ultrathin funk-rock of Don't Make Me Wait
are psychological essays as much as musical demonstrations.
The music on Paste (2022) is (intentionally) the opposite of "articulate".
The songs struggle, sink in invisible quicksands, gasp and grope.
They spin in aimless circles, like in Life Choices.
At best, they evoke slow-burning dissonant psychodramas, like in Yep Yep.
The most fascinating moment comes when the deconstruction goes too far, in In a Tizzy, and leaves behind only the skeleton of a song.
The recitation is still a handicap through.
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