Moin: Paste review – taking a craft knife to 90s indie

Moin: Paste review – taking a craft knife to 90s indie

The band create sinewy post-punk grooves with layers of vocals, samples and drums in their most fully-realised album

Impactful minimalism … from L, Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead and Valentina Magaletti of Moin.
Impactful minimalism … from L, Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead and Valentina Magaletti of Moin.

Moin – the post-punk, post-hardcore project of London’s Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead and Valentina Magaletti – isn’t so much a band as it is a means of presenting older, excavated sounds now. It began as a spin-off of Andrews and Halstead’s primary project Raime, whose 2012 debut was lauded for the way it incorporated industrial, goth and dub into doomy electronics. After their 2016 follow-up signalled a shift towards skeletal post-punk, Andrews and Halstead resumed their efforts with the more post-punk focused Moin, this time with Magaletti in tow. (Magaletti is a prolific percussionist and composer in her own right, who has had a hand in some of the most thrilling avant garde releases of the past few years.)

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