Line #8 Music/MolchatDoma


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Left to right: Roman Komogortsev, Egor Shkutko, and Pavel Kozlov]]
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4	-> Why does this anguish feel so good?
5	-->-- ''Toska''
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7	Molchat Doma (Молчат Дома, Russian for 'Houses Are Silent') are a UsefulNotes/{{Belarus}}ian PostPunk and DarkWave band formed in Minsk in 2017. Despite being Belarusian, all of their songs are in UsefulNotes/{{Russian\|Language}}, a language they have confessed to be more comfortable writing and singing in (it's widespread in their country).
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9	They're most well known for their BreakthroughHit album ''Etazhi'' (Floors), their second in 2017. This contains [[SignatureSong by far their most well known song]], "Sudno" (Bedpan), a poem set to music about dying in a hospital bed written by a poet who [[DrivenToSuicide later killed himself]]. Much of their music features themes and imagery of despair, urban decay, and post-UsefulNotes/{{Soviet\|Russia Ukraine And So On}} [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell misery]].
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11	[[SarcasmMode As you can tell]] [[RussianGuySuffersMost they're a very cheerful]] [[TrueArtIsAngsty band]].
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13	!!Members:
14	* Egor Shkutko (vocals)
15	* Roman Komogortsev (guitar, synthesizer, drum machine)
16	* Pavel Kozlov (bass guitar, synthesizer).
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18	!!Discography:
19	* ''С крыш наших домов''(Romanised: S krysh nashikh domov), (English: 'From the Roofs of our Houses'). Self-released album, 2017. Reissued by Sacred Bones Records in 2020.
20	* ''Этажи ''(Romanised: Etazhi), (English: 'Floors'). Detriti Records, 2018. Reissued by Sacred Bones Records in 2020.
21	* ''Монумент'' (English/Romanised: 'Monument'). Sacred Bones Albums, 2020.
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23	!! Molchat Doma provide examples of:
24	* BreakupSong: "Toska" sounds like one, with the man wanting to see 'Toska' (misery, which is personified here) go, asking 'her' to give the keys back etc.
25	* BrokenRecord: The below lyrics from "Sudno", which are either a MadnessMantra or a SurvivalMantra depending on how you look at it.
26	* CentralTheme: Almost all of their songs and albums revolve around bleak, oppressive environments; even their name reflects their constant references to architecture.
27	* CrapsackWorld: Their music has a heavy emphasis on setting rather than characters; their music creates the impression of a very bleak, funeral setting, reflecting the band's apparent view of Post-Soviet Europe.
28	* DeathSong: "Sudno".
29	* DeliberateVHSQuality: Their video for "Kletka" ("Cage") has VHS static and scan lines to add to the gloomy {{Retraux}} feel.
30	* DerangedAnimation:
31	** The music video of "Toska" has some surreal hand-drawn animation parts with a girl falling, exploding, shrinking and exploding, and her face serves as a mask to the live-action woman of the video at one point.
32	** The black blots in the video for "Sudno" also qualify.
33	* DrivenToSuicide: Boris Ryzhy, the poet who wrote the lyrics to "Sudno". Knowing this makes the song [[invoked]][[FridgeHorror even eerier than it already is]].
34	* {{Dystopia}}: Their music has a dark, oppressive vibe influenced by memories of Eastern Bloc communism.
35	* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: All of their albums are dreary-looking pictures of strikingly oppressive - or perhaps strangely beautiful - buildings built by communist regimes:
36	** The cover of ''С крыш наших домов'' shows the infamously incomplete Ryugyong Hotel in [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea North Korea]].
37	** The cover of ''Этажи '' shows the Hotel Panorama in [[UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} Slovakia]].
38	** The cover of ''Монумент '' shows the Monument to Party Founding, also in North Korea, with the ground changed to crashing waves and the Korean text on the plinth edited to show the album name.
39	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All of their album titles contain references in some way to buildings, as does their band name.
40	* LyricalDissonance: Many of their songs are pretty danceable. If you understand the lyrics, they're also ''ungodly depressing''.
41	* MadnessMantra: The narrator in "Sudno", desperately trying not to [[{{Tearjerker}} slip away in a hospital bed]]:
42	-->And I'm trying to get up
43	-->I want to look it in the eyes
44	--> Look in its eyes and fall into tears
45	-->And never die, never die
46	-->[[BrokenRecord Never die, never die, never die]]
47	* {{Retraux}}: Their music might best be described as "Music/JoyDivision... if they were formed in 1980s Soviet Union".
48	* RussianGuySuffersMost:
49	** They're a Russian-speaking Belarusian band, and their music is ''bleak''. Not for nothing are they often referred to as [[TheCynic "doomer music"]].
50	** "Toska" takes its name from the Russian meaning/perception of misery as once exemplified by Creator/AntonChekhov in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(short_story) short story]].
51	* SurvivalMantra: Another, more positive interpretation of the above lyrics.
52	* TheUnblinking: The woman of the music video of "Toska" stares at the camera and very rarely blinks.
53	* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: The miserable atmosphere of Post-Soviet Eastern Bloc states permeates all the imagery and themes of their music; however, based on their album covers' nightmarish presentation of old Soviet buildings, it's hard to argue they really present extant communist nations as utopian either.

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