Having moved from their native Minsk to LA, the fourth album from Belarusian post-punk/synthpop outfit Molchat Doma also marks an expansive and propulsive “technicolour reinvention” of their sound. Taut, moody, imposing and typically brutalist, it’s one heck of a gut punch

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