Molchat Doma, the Belarus-born trio now based in LA, are bringing their post-punk, synth-pop, goth-dance sound to Shanghai. Expect deep monotone vocals, cold wave vibes, and that dark but strangely addictive energy that’s made them viral on TikTok and packed venues worldwide. If you’re into moody beats you can still move to, this one’s for you.
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Molchat Doma, founded in 2017 in Minsk, Belarus, now residing in Los Angeles, stands at the intersection of post-punk, new-wave and synth-pop. Dark yet danceable, and with a heavy dose of goth ethos, their music is reminiscent of the masters that predate them, but make no mistake: Molchat Doma creates a sound and meaning that is immediately recognizable as all their own.
The band is comprised of Egor Shkutko, who sings the Russian lyrics in his deep monotone, Roman Komogortsev on guitar, synths, and drum machine, and Pavel Kozlov on bass and synths. The band's influences include Perestroika-era Russian groups such as Kino, as well as post-punk and synth pop staples like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, and the Human League.
Molchat Doma released their first two albums that grew the band’s name through word of mouth. Sophomore album Etazhi (“Floors”) went through numerous pressings in Europe before Sacred Bones signed the band in early 2020. The third album Monument was released in 2020. 2024 saw the release of their anticipated fourth album, Belaya Polosa.
Molchat Doma went viral in 2020 garnering over one million views on YouTube and becoming a legitimate phenomenon on Bandcamp. Then the same year a track from their second album, “Судно(БорисРыжий)” (“Bedpan (BorisRyzhy)”), gained viral popularity on TikTok. The song has since appeared in hundreds of thousands of videos on the platform. The song peaked at number two on the Spotify Global Viral 50 chart and number one on the United States Viral 50 chart. While the album Monument charted at number 21 on Billboard 200 and Top Heatseekers.
The band spent most of 2022 and 2023 touring the world (North & South America, UK & Europe, Australia) playing sold out shows at sizeable venues such as Terminal 5 in NYC, Shrine Expo Hall in LA, Kentish Town Forum O2 in London as well as festivals like Coachella, Cruel World and Primavera. They have a worldwide tour schedule planned for end of 2024 into end of 2025.
What People Are Saying
"Molchat Doma’s music is so mystically self-possessed that it’s hard not to wish you were part of the magic, too." - Pitchfork
"Molchat Doma, a synth-pop trio, has become an unlikely social media star. Back home, its music was the soundtrack to a traumatic year." - The New York Times
"The songs themselves are remarkably well crafted, even heartbreaking at times, and the whole thing stands up to repeated, obsessive listening." - 8/10 AllMusic
"If there’s one thing that Molchat Doma can do, it’s create a vibrant picture with their sound, one track in and suddenly your mind is taken elsewhere." - The Quietus
"The album's clearest virtue is its precision: nine songs, no filler, no visible weaknesses — Monument is as solid as the monoliths to which it harkens. It's an intriguing exercise in the constant presence and eternal unrepeatability of memory, the past, and the present intermingling and changing one another." - 8/10 PopMatters
"This album embraces its darkness, but doesn’t wallow in hopelessness. Instead, the music listens like an apocalyptic dance party, fusing post-punk, new wave and synth-pop to create a moody but compulsively listenable record." - 8/10 Loud & Quiet
"There's an energy and inventiveness to these songs that transcends pastiche, all while using most of the well-known sounds and styles, from tinny, rapid-fire electro-handclaps to the gurgling synths, to the delay and chorus on the bass and guitars. That's the thing, you want all these moves, but you need a group that knows how to pull it off and aren't afraid to play it like they invented it… It is easy to make mediocre cold wave synthpop -- Bandcamp is littered with attempts -- but making a record like Monument is not.” - Brooklyn Vegan (Album Of The Week)
"an austere gothic dream" – The Chicago Reader
"dark, well-crafted blend of ‘80s-steeped post-punk and electro-pop, combining bleak guitars and twinkling synths with hypnotic, often-propulsive rhythms, gloomy vocals and brooding melodies.” – KEXP
“Molchat Doma are the Belarusian post-punk band whose cold and sparse music has become a mainstay for the doomer generation.” - The Fader
Beijing: 9 Dec, Chengdu: 14 Dec 
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