Molchat Doma & Sextile played Knockdown Center on Valentine’s Day (pics, setlist)

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Feb 18, 2025 - 23:44

Molchat Doma & Sextile played Knockdown Center on Valentine’s Day (pics, setlist)

For some, Valentine’s Day means a three-course pre-fixe dinner at a fancy restaurant. For others it means going to see dark synthwave bands at a cavernous space in Queens. For the latter, Belarusian group Molchat Doma brought their North American tour to Knockdown Center on 2/14. The tour is supporting last year’s Belaya Polosa and they played nearly all of that album’s songs, plus other favorites from the rest of their discography. They saved their biggest hit, the TikTok-fueled “Sudno,” for the last song of the encore, natch.

Opening the show were LA’s Sextile who went full-on ’90s-electronica for their most recent album, Push, and came equipped with few large flags. One had their logo while another read “ABORTION RIGHTS NOW” in all-caps.

Check out photos from the whole night by Rob Menzer below.

Sextile (photo by Rob Menzer)

Molchat Doma (photo by Rob Menzer)

SETLIST: Molchat Doma @ Knockdown Center 2/14/2025
Kolesom
Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Ya
III
Doma Molchat
Ne Vdvoem
Obrechen
Belaya Polosa
Chernye Tsvety
Son
Volny
Lyudi Nadoeli
Ya Tak Ustal
Discoteque
Na Dne
Encore:
Kletka
Toska
tancevat
Sudno (Boris Ryzhyi)