Moth Cock: HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer (Hausu Mountain, 2024)

August 6, 2024 at 8:14 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Moth Cock: HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer

The first Moth Cock release I ever heard was a live recording, and that left a pretty big impression, so I feel like their energy is always going to translate best when it’s an in-the-moment document. The newest HausLive volume is two entire concerts by the duo, and it makes it seem like the duo just have a faucet of weird energy that they can turn on and off at any given moment. You could imagine them just doing a 6-hour marathon and they’d still keep hitting on weird sounds and frequencies, and they wouldn’t feel the need to stop. The way the beats constantly mutate can bring to mind Autechre’s live jams, but that duo could never replicate the type of frenzy whipped up by Moth Cock’s mangled sax/trumpet squonking. The last 10 minutes of the May 6, 2023 gig at Not Not are particularly mind-melting, twisting absurd voices and gelatinous basslines, then stuttering noises into speedcore blasts. The other gig (at DADS, December 15, 2023), goes stupid hard for a show where one of the musicians was laying on a recliner.

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