{"id":634548,"date":"2024-09-06T18:07:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/molchat-doma-are-fun-now\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:07:59","slug":"molchat-doma-are-fun-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/molchat-doma-are-fun-now\/","title":{"rendered":"#Molchat Doma are fun now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2893ed480e3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/molchat-doma-are-fun-now\/#On_their_fourth_studio_album_Belaya_Polosa_the_Belarusian_trio_reveal_a_brighter_dancier_take_on_the_grim_EBM-inspired_sound_that_made_them_viral_sensations\" >On their fourth studio album Belaya Polosa, the Belarusian trio reveal a brighter, dancier take on the grim, EBM-inspired sound that made them viral sensations.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"On_their_fourth_studio_album_Belaya_Polosa_the_Belarusian_trio_reveal_a_brighter_dancier_take_on_the_grim_EBM-inspired_sound_that_made_them_viral_sensations\"><\/span>On their fourth studio album <i>Belaya Polosa<\/i>, the Belarusian trio reveal a brighter, dancier take on the grim, EBM-inspired sound that made them viral sensations. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264004\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Screen_Shot_2024-09-06_at_9.37.30_AM_yg6rf5\/molchat-doma-image-via-publicist.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Molchat Doma are fun now\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Molchat Doma. Image via publicist.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264005\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Molchat Doma are guys who like to have fun. Seriously. They play video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s, watch hockey, and go to concerts: since moving from Minsk to Los Angeles in 2020, Egor Shkutko and Roman Komogortsev (two-thirds of the band along with Pavel Kozlov) have been attending as many as they can \u2014 Egor\u2019s recent favorite was Deftones with System of a Down, while Roman was especially impressed with Queens of the Stone Age. Listening to the stern, frost-bitten sound of the gothy post-punk band\u2019s previous albums might conjure the image of its creators as equally grim people, incapable of feeling pleasure. But Molchat Doma are now ready to reflect brighter dimensions in their music with their fourth album <i>Belaya Polosa<\/i> (<i>White S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>e<\/i> in English), a project that, against all odds, can be described as infectious.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264012\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Molchat Doma - Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Ya (Official Video) - \u0422\u044b \u0416\u0435 \u041d\u0435 \u0417\u043d\u0430\u0435\u0448\u044c \u041a\u0442\u043e \u042f\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ggMYhQW41YU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('264012');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264006\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Over a video call through a translator, Shkutko speaks from a dark room lit only by his computer glow, while Komogortsev phones in from a studio decked out with vintage synthesizers, guitars, and a flag that reads \u201cNOBODY CARES. WORK HARDER,\u201d the same one that\u2019s on the wall of my gym. They\u2019re about as far from the modern notion of TikTok music sensations as you can get, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> has introduced an unwitting generation of short-form video fiends to their music. <\/p>\n<p>            It began with \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=91GTuZWCQmY\">Sudno (Boris Ryzhy)<\/a>,\u201d from their 2018 album <i>Etazhi<\/i>. Not long after the album\u2019s re-release on Sacred Bones, \u201cSudno,\u201d a song about a bed-ridden acceptance of death, became the soundtrack for hundreds of thousands of TikToks. Unsurprisingly, as appreciative as both Shkuto and Komogortsev are for all their new fans and the opportunities they\u2019ve brought with them, they have little to no interest in following the whims of internet trends: \u201cMusic first,\u201d Komogortsev says in a rare lapse into English from his native tongue.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264013\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cMolchat Doma itself is an experiment. Now, we feel more secure in ourselves \u2014 as a band, and [in] what we want to achieve sonically.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264007\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Every Molchat Doma album reflects a different musical era. Their 2017 debut <i>S Krish Nashih Domov<\/i> and <i>Etazhi<\/i> channeled the sounds of the early \u201980s: Joy Division, early Cure, and Kino, giants of Soviet-era rock. Things started to shift on 2020\u2019s <i>Monument<\/i>: the cobwebs in their shadowy disco began to fall away, and colors in their EBM-inspired sound began to emerge. Slowly, they say, they were becoming the band they\u2019d always wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>            Thanks to three albums worth of experience and global attention that showed no signs of abating, Molchat Doma were finally ready to create <i>Belaya Polosa<\/i>. Chiefly inspired by the \u201990s and Depeche Mode, the album is the first that the band has recorded in their new L.A. studio \u2014 previous albums were pieced together on an old laptop in a bedroom, Shkutko says in a tone that suggests exasperation as much as pride. It\u2019s this era of music, Komogortsev says, that the band mainly grew up on, its visual iconography seared into their retinas like the MTV logo burned into the bottom right of a CRT TV. Finally, that glossy energy would fully make its way into Molchat Doma\u2019s music.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264011\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa (Official Video) \u041c\u043e\u043b\u0447\u0430\u0442 \u0414\u043e\u043c\u0430 - \u0411\u0435\u043b\u0430\u044f \u041f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0441\u0430\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TEUEgEQIBNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('264011');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264008\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>Belaya Polosa<\/i> begins with a swell of Prophet-sized synths on \u201cTy Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Ya\u201d (translated: \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know Who I Am\u201d), its filters opening into a yawn that suggests some kind of barrier melting away. A new and shinier fidelity boosts the dancefloor ambitions of tracks like \u201cKolesom&#8221; and &#8220;Belaya Polosa,&#8221; songs indebted to <i>Violator<\/i>-era Depeche Mode down to the ruinous electric guitar twang and Shkutko\u2019s vocals, studiously modeled on Dave Gahan. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            As much as Shkutko and Komogortsev cop to their influences, they stress that they wanted to stretch these sounds to their limits. Sampling became a tool for the first time, with sounds from the legendary Zero-G sample libraries appearing in the music. You can hear them prevalently in &#8220;Chernye Tsvety,&#8221; where the band\u2019s flickering drum machines are replaced with a broken break that takes the song into the realm of trip-hop. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264009\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            One can imagine the pressure Molchat Doma must have faced to make an album worth of \u201cSudno\u201d remakes. The song\u2019s grim and charging sonics are a defining chapter in pandemic-era music and aesthetic catnip for disaffected, dooming youngsters all over the world. Some see their futures reflected in the music; others just want to get a fit off to a cool song. The band\u2019s subsequent success and sold-out tours suggest they\u2019ve escaped memeification and built a dedicated base of true fans rather than a fleet of doomer wojaks. And even though <i>Belaya Polosa<\/i> is not an express rejection of their early sound\u2019s explosion online, the stark contrast is admirable in a bottom-line-driven industry. \u201cAs individuals,\u201d Shkutko says, \u201cwe change and develop as people, and so does our music.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cMolchat Doma itself is an experiment,\u201d  Kamahortsau says. \u201cNow, we feel more secure in ourselves \u2014 as a band, and [in] what we want to achieve sonically.\u201d That new confidence has helped them process surprised audience responses when they play new songs live. \u201cIt&#8217;s like a little game,\u201d Kamahortsau says, \u201cto tease fans with these new songs and see what the reaction is.\u201d Previous eras of music may give us hints of where Molchat Doma are going next. But, to the band\u2019s credit, they\u2019ll never be a complete map.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264010\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/60B6wBzA7SFksiyiNqlYhn?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/belaya-polosa\/1741452478\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Jordan Darville<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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