{"id":212354,"date":"2022-06-29T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exitfest.org\/?p=212354"},"modified":"2022-06-29T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:07:56","slug":"molchat-doma-silent-houses-louder-than-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exitfest.org\/en\/molchat-doma-silent-houses-louder-than-noise","title":{"rendered":"Molchat Doma \u2013 \u201cSilent Houses\u201c, Louder than Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the contrary, punk and new wave flourished in Thatcher\u2019s Britain; Britpop, which experienced its rise under Tory John Major, died out under Tony Blair, while the US underground scene peaked only after the arrival of George W. Bush. Woodstock<\/strong> was created during the Vietnam war. Let\u2019s not forget that during the reign of Slobodan Milosevic, before 2000, a whole constellation of bands was formed in Serbia, bands that are still iconic in the country\u2019s rock and pop culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, is it strange that, as a result of Lukashenko\u2019s decades-long rule, the hitmakers of depression and darkwave, Molchat Doma<\/strong><\/a>, come to us from Minsk? Of course, if you\u2019ve ever been to Minsk, you know a few more things about that city: that the Nazis brutally destroyed it and that only the city centre was restored to its old glory while the rest is monumentally socialist. That it is located in the northern plains, where it often rains. And that Belarusians are a very musical people with a tragic history \u201cbetween two worlds.\u201d All this caused one of the Top 5 darkwave bands in the world to come to life in the atmosphere of the Belarusian capital.<\/span><\/p>\n