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You Never End

    ‘You Never End’ is the third album from Moin, a London trio made up of Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead (Raime / Blackest Ever Black) as well as long time collaborator and percussionist visionary Valentina Magaletti. Its title alone expresses the teetering and shifting nature of both the album and band. This record marks the Moin’s shift into a new phase with vocal collaborations across the album from Olan Monk, james K, Coby Sey and Sophia Al-Maria.

    The album’s collaborators all have voices that are alluring in their own right whilst hard to pin down: from james K’s ethereal, reverb drenched vocals, Coby Sey’s words that bounce and echo across London’s concrete streets and Olan Monk’s emotive songwriting, while artist Sophie Al-Maria’s voice and thoughts are known to stretch across her multidisciplinary practice as an artist, filmmaker and writer. The unique mystique of each collaborator is maintained throughout the record while simultaneously opening Moin up to new possibilities, in a gentle shifting alchemy.

    Continuing their enigmatic re-configuring of the traditional band, Moin use a mix of conventional and unique production and compositional techniques. Subtly re-framing the current conversation about what band in 2024 needs to be, Moin walk the line between what's reassuringly familiar and what's unsettling and inquisitive. ‘You Never End’ is a more sensitive record in sentiment, it re-contextualises grunge, shoegaze and indie rock with a weirdly comforting melancholy while still sounding direct and alive.

    Showing Moin at their most accessible, the vocal collaborations bring the most articulate moments and lucid emotion while still remaining uniquely within Moin's established world. Alongside this, the record fine tunes the elements of electronic production that have always been a feature of the band's unique sound in a deeply subtle way. Elements are simpler and more direct, offering robust functional support as well as textural and emotional resonance. Together they show the potential for both practices to intertwine.

    ‘You Never End’ is both produced and mixed by Tom and Joe, demonstrating the extended range of control the pair have over the band's sound, and their ability to truly hold together Moin’s intricate world.


    STAFF COMMENTS

    Liam says: This new one from Moin is an absolute must! Bursting with proper interesting mathy and angular textures, the atmosphere on this thing is mega! For fans of Slint, Sonic Youth or anything slowcore/no-wavey, you need to get all over this!

    TRACK LISTING

    Side A
    A1. Guess It's Wrecked Feat. Olan Monk
    A2. Cubby
    A3. Family Way Feat. Sophia Al-Maria
    A4. What If You Didn't Need A Reason Feat. James K
    A5. Lift You Feat. Sophia Al-Maria
    A6. It's Messy Coping

    Side B
    B1. We Know What Gives Feat. Coby Sey
    B2. C’Mon Dive
    B3. Anything But Sopo
    B4. Happy In The Wrong Way
    B5. Just Married

    Moin

    Moot! - 2024 Reissue

      Moin is a three-piece group consisting of Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead of Raime alongside longtime collaborator Valentina Magaletti of Tomaga, Shit & Shine & CZN. Released on AD93, Moot marks a creative left turn for the label and a pared-down studio approach for the artists involved. According to Moin, “the record was made as an experiment really, it felt like the right time to play on the fringes of this kind of music. The priority was to be direct at first and then change the edges perhaps. Make something to experience rather than something as a spectacle.”

      Made using traditional live recording techniques with some sparingly applied sampling and post-processing in the studio afterwards, it’s a heady interpretation of the mist between post-punk, hardcore and down-tuned US stoner rock. There’s flashes of Slint in the hollow locked in percussion and ominous bass interludes, there's elements of the various influential projects of Justin Broadrick, Steve Albini or even Kevin Shields with the warm distortion across tracks like 'It's Never Goodbye' and the rhythmic complexity in the tightly wound, menacing time signatures.

      A no-frills rediscovery of the music which informed their youth, Moot! is the culmination of 3 visionaries stripping things back to the essential elements. A visceral and timeless experience that's highly recommended.


      TRACK LISTING

      A1. No To Gods, No To Sunsets
      A2. Crappy Dreams Count
      A3. Don'T Make Me Wait
      A4. Right Is Alright, Wrong Is To Belong
      B1. Lungs
      B2. I Can'T Help But Melt
      B3. An Utter Stink
      B4. It'S Never Goodbye

      Moin

      Paste - 2024 Reissue

        ‘Paste’ is the second album by Moin, released on the October 2022 via AD 93.

        The follow up to their well-received debut album ‘Moot!’, the record draws influences from alternative guitar music in its many forms, using electronic manipulations and sampling techniques to redefine it's context, not settling on any one style but moving through them in search of new connections.

        By exploring these relationships, Moin delivers another collage of the known and unknown, punctuated by words that are just out of reach.


        TRACK LISTING

        A1. Foot Wrong
        A2. Melon
        A3. Yep Yep
        A4. Forgetting Is Like Syrup
        A5. In A Tizzy
        B1. Knuckle
        B2. Hung Up
        B3. Life Choices
        B4. Sink - Moin


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