{"id":1477,"date":"2009-03-05T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:13:59","slug":"moscow-youth-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1477","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Youth Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px 20px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube159\/tube159_460.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/>Nuova, nostalgica release da test tube.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00ab<em>Warm, woozy childhood memories, and crisp blue winter skies\u2026 friends, beaches, summer\u2026 the creative joys of making otherworldly sounds on battered old synths and a Casio keyboard stuck through cheap guitar pedals\u2026 a hefty dose of unadulterated, euphoric pop melody\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Colours Seep Out <\/em>is the first full mini-opus from Nottingham\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube159.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Moscow Youth Cult<\/strong><\/a>, an electro-ambient-pop sidearm of UK underground indie noisemakers, &#8220;Love Ends Disaster!&#8221; (currently in hiding, putting together their next album). Part a recollection of the fuzzy and optimistic late 1990\u2019s electronica of Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Susumu Yokota and DJ Shadow, part the urgent electro-pop of Beck, Ladytron and Fourtet, the 9 tracks here twist and melt from evocative synthscapes (<em>Antenna I<\/em>, <em>Sandpits<\/em>) to concise spurts of noise pop (<em>Philosophique, Sakura Sakura<\/em>)\u2026 and back again, without pausing for breath. What becomes clear is Jon Dix (Guitar, Synths, Vocals, Programming &amp; Production), Robert Sadler (Keyboards, Programming) and Leah Donovan\u2019s (Vocals) clear enjoyment of the sensibilities of pop music, topped with a healthy does of unabashed, exciting experimentalism.\u00bb &#8211; <em>Jon Dix<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Estratti:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube159\/tube159-08-moscow_youth_cult_-_antenna_ii.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antenna II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube159\/tube159-03-moscow_youth_cult_-_colours_seep_out.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colours Seep Out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube159.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to\/download<\/a> the whole album<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuova, nostalgica release da test tube. \u00abWarm, woozy childhood memories, and crisp blue winter skies\u2026 friends, beaches, summer\u2026 the creative joys of making otherworldly sounds on battered old synths and a Casio keyboard stuck through cheap guitar pedals\u2026 a hefty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1477\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17923,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/17923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}