ReviewMotorama expand coldwave sounds on fourth album Dialogues

Motorama
Dialogues
Talitres

While Russia’s Motorama may take their cues from Soviet New Wave bands such as Kino and Megapolis, the earlier output of the post-punk quintet from Rostov-on-Don, who will play the Mom Livehouse, in North Point, on September 22, seems more like the work of the world’s most faithful Joy Division cover band. Their self-produced debut album, Alps (2010), sounds like what you’d have heard if Manchester’s Factory Records had opened up a dingy rock dive a stone’s throw from the Ukrainian border in the late 1970s.