Monument

The Belarusian new wave band’s latest album is an austere gothic dream with no interest in pandering to the audience attracted by their improbable TikTok breakthrough.

Just as second album Etazhi was a step up from the band's murky debut S Krysh Nashikh Domov, in terms of both recording fidelity and songwriting, Monument sounds much brighter and more polished, and contains some of their most hook-filled songs to date.

Gothy Belarusian new wavers Molchat Doma rose to prominence via TikTok – but their moody brilliance is worth more than a 60-second clip

In Minsk, the bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky — founder of the KGB — still stands.

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