Molchat Doma (Молчат Дома)

Trio from Minsk, Belarus. Listen to Molchat Doma (Молчат Дома, Silent or Still Houses) if you like new wave or 80s wave – now called post-punk or cold wave – and also if you appreciated Ploho. Discover a Russian underground poet along the way.

 

Molchat Doma x Ploho

The link with Ploho is often made. Both bands maintain friendly relations and, in 2019, recorded По краю острова together (lyrics, lyrics with translation). See also An Introduction to Russian Post-Punk with Ploho and Molchat Doma (Post-punk.com, 2020).

 

Monument (album 2020)

Three albums, each with something architectural: С крыш наших домов (From the roofs of our houses, 2017), Этажи (Floors, 2018), and now Монумент (Monument, 2020). Also available on Bandcamp, Last.fm, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Several tracks from Монумент had been released earlier, including Звёзды (Stars, 2019) and Ответа нет (No answer, 2020). New is Дискотека; ‘a change-up for the band’s usual doom and gloom sound,’ according to Post-punk.com.

Here, I’ve selected only from the rich offering of lyric videos.

 

Zvezdy / Звёзды (2019)

Lyrics

Toska / Тоска (2018)

Lyrics

Sudno / Судно (2018)

The lyrics (with translation below) are from Эмалированное судно (1997), a poem by Boris Ryzhy (1974-2001). See also this video (2019) and this piece on Boris Ryzhy. Interpretation of this Судно in Смысл песни Судно Борис Рыжий (Какой смысл, 2020).

Roofs / Крыши (2017)

Lyrics

More Molchat Doma songs and lyric videos

More lyrics on screen (sometimes with translation) in:

• Ответа нет (2020)
• Волны (2018)
• Tанцевать (2018)
• На Дне (2018)
• Коммерсанты (2018)
• Я не коммунист (2017)
• Дома молчат (2017)

Years refer to the albums these tracks are on, not the year of video release.

 

For Belarus

Molchat Doma is also featured – with Я не коммунист – on For Belarus, a compilation ‘in support of victims of repression and police violence in Belarus.’ Featuring artists such as АИГЕЛ (Russia), Alyona Alyona (Ukraine), Karpov not Kasparov (Romania), Solo Ansamblis (Lithuania), and Super Besse) (Belarus). Related: Best from Belarus.

 

Meme and more

• How Belarusian Post-Punks Molchat Doma Became a TikTok Meme (Pitchfork, 2020)
• In A Sea Of Panel Houses: An Introduction to Post-Punk From Belarus (NBHAP, 2020)
• New Order (Mark Gurarie, Culture Crush)

In German: Molchat Doma: Der düstere Soundtrack zu Weißrusslands Plattenbauten (Arte Tracks, 2019, 6 m).

More via Facebook, Instagram, and this website.
And on Wikipedia English, Dutch, Russian.

 

Molchat Doma Interview The Village

Get to know Yegor Shkutko, Pavel Kozlov, and Roman Komogortsev in this short interview (2020, 2 m) with The Village, English subtitled.

Most of the music here is also available in an R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also Best Russian Music and Russian Song Lyrics – continued in Russian Songs with Lyrics | Learn Russian Through Music.

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