SOTD #159 // Moscow Youth Cult: 'Girls Of Boredom'

It’s somehow not surprising that Nottingham duo Moscow Youth Cult are accompanied live by a video of cut-up sci-fi and horror B-movies; as their take on 8-bit electro is as dark, woozy and prone to distortion and jumpiness as a degraded VHS tape. Kind of chillwave if it was uprooted from its languid beachfront and thrown down a dark mine.

The sound is a lot more intricate than it’s letting on, taking a New Order electronic strain to a lighter take on Fuck Buttons’ undulating waves of noisemaking. While there’s an element at heart of pop shapes being thrown, it’s one warped out of line by fuzzily psychedelic layered beats and glitched while manicured noise. Once upon a time someone like Mute Records would have been all over offbeat electronic pop such as this; as it is they remain unsigned but, we’re told, hope to have a couple of tracks on significant label compilations early in 2011 with an album entitled Happiness Machines ready to go soon.

Moscow Youth Cult: ‘Girls Of Boredom’