Moin—the collaboration of Valentina Magaletti and Raime’s Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews—will release a new album in October on AD 93.
You Never End marks Moin’s shift into a new phase with vocal collaborations across the album from Olan Monk, james K, Coby Sey, and Sophia Al-Maria.
Across 11 tracks, Moin re-contextualise grunge, shoegaze, and indie rock with a “weirdly comforting melancholy while still sounding direct and alive,” we’re told.
Andrews and Halstead are best known for their work as Raime, through which they present a uniquely bleak take on post-dub music, with each work grounded in live instrumentation, gloomy synth lines, and unsettling, abstract vocals. The pair met Magaletti, an Italian multi-instrumentalist, just before the project started out, and in 2013 they put out an EP on Blackest Ever Black. They put out Paste, their second album, in 2022.
You can read more about the project here, alongside the group’s XLR8R podcast.
Tracklisting
01. Guess It’s Wrecked feat. Olan Monk
02. Cubby
03. Family Way feat. Sophia Al-Maria
04. What If You Didn’t Need A Reason feat. james K
05. Lift You feat. Sophia Al-Maria
06. It’s Messy Coping
07. We Know What Gives feat. Coby Sey
08. C’mon Dive
09. Anything But Sopo
10. Happy In The Wrong Way
11. Just Married
You Never End LP is scheduled for October 25 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Guess It’s Wrecked” in full via the player below, and pre-order here.
Photo: Amy Gwatkin