Moin

Raime’s offspring Moin pounce on AD 93 with a class debut album propelled by Valentina Magaletti’s seething percussion. No doubt it’s their most direct and experiential recording, bristling with energies drawn from Slint. Shellac and classic post-punk, psych and alt.rock styles plus special ingredients.

Arriving eight years since their turns for Blackest Ever Black, Moin regroup around the core of Joe Andrews (samples/electronics), Tom Halstead (guitars), and Valentina Magaletti (drums) with a definitively upfront sound in ‘Moot!’ Thrown down quick and live and then rendered and textured with Raime’s studio-as-instrument tekkers, their intention was to create “immediate music that isn’t pretending to be anything but”, and the results pay up a fiercely tight but frayed distillation of their band-based influences, landing somewhere between earliest Swans, the yanked noise rock jags of Steve Albini’s Rapeman, and Bill Laswell’s No wave funk experiments with Material, but adhering to a London-style groove discipline that’s underwritten all their best work.