MOLY
Expressing Scorn Contempt or Disgrace (Tenor Vossa)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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First of all, this album is too short (just over half an hour), which is the nature of EPs, I suppose. The album is also set up so that it musically takes you from an actual Point A to Point B, and by the time you're at the Point B, you're completely wrapped up in the album, and then it just ends, and so you have to get up and play the whole thing over again, which takes you all the way back to Point A and just feels frustrating, because you actually wanted to go to a nonexistent Point C. Full of lush, guitar-heavy instrumentals, short-wave radio squeals and transmitted conversations, minimal percussion and the occasional gigantic, unexpected crashing crescendo, Moly could perhaps be best described as an optimistic Mogwai - where Mogwai goes down and gets sad and lonesome, Moly goes up and becomes hopeful and tries to shake its demons free. Like I said, my only complaint about the record is that it's just too damned short, but I'd probably say the same thing if it was hours longer.

[Pick this up at www.tenorvossa.co.uk.]

© 2002 - Holly Day