LIVE REVIEW: Moin live at the SAT in Montreal
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Z Neto Vinheiras
5/26/20262 min read
My stakes were high since I first saw them last fall at OUT.FEST in Barreiro, Portugal,and easily being one of my favourite shows of the year. Although surrounded in a perhaps more suited roughness–in the underground, DIY, industrial, warehouse ADAO’s vibe in Barreiro–the London-based group was just as restless and powerful last Thursday at the SAT.
Moin has a way of dealing with the liminal and emotional depth and confusion that itfeels so easy to get and make one feel understood: “To have experienced so much love, tohave resisted / To be bitter, to think of you / To feel your mood like the weather, to not let itaffect me anymore / To not let it affect me anymore / To feel angry, to know what you'retalking about”. The lyrics to “Lift you”–performed last Thursday without Sophia Al-Maria–feel to me like words put into how the music really feels and how it affects you. Conflicted, rough emotions treated very finely. Reminiscences of old loves. Hard introspections. Unanswered questions. Disarming, not to hurt you, but be with you, feel with you.
This post-rock-post-punk-alternative-post-feeling goes this way: low rumbling oscillating from the dark and shades of green–a sort of statement saying “this here, it’s quite deep”–distortion, looped vocals, steady, crisp and complex drumming, riffs to open up a heart. The vitality they get on stage is not only a witness but a testament to the haunts of being human, an acknowledgement of conflicted wounds and hopes; so raw to a point it feels it’s only about you. I’d say it’s a fully appropriate show to go see alone or otherwise, experience it in your individual bubble (it’s inevitable). Either way, one doesn’t leave the same way they arrived–perhaps both secretly exposed and understood.
It doesn’t feel as if songs are made to be proper songs either, but a musical hypothesis of what goes on beneath the surface, consistent mass of what a heart wants to speak and what a skin’s reaction would sound like.
Grateful for the gravity, the band is really there with us, not just performing for us–encore please!
Moin - Lift You
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