Artist Biography
Known as an indie rock utility player with stops in bands like Stove and Titus Andronicus, Alex Molini makes noisy, often brutal (as on 2019's I Complain) music under the name Philary.
Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Molini isn't the kind of person to stick to being in one band at a time. Over the course of a few years' time in the second half of the 2010s, he played with shoegazers Stove, expansive indie rockers Pile, noise rock duo Dirty Dishes, and the experimental noise collective Fond Han, and he appeared on a pair of Titus Andronicus albums. Having proven himself an excellent bandmember many times over, he split off to make music under the name Philary in late 2017. His debut EP, Bummer, displayed elements of all the bands he spent time with while hewing closest to the thoughtfully off-kilter noise gaze of Stove. His next record took a different path. Recorded at home and at Black Lodge studio in Brooklyn, I Complain nods to heavy metal with its downtuned guitars and oft-screamed vocals, sports the brief song durations of punk, and still finds space for the occasional shoegaze-y melody. The record was released in June of 2019 by Exploding in Sound, the label home of many of the bands Molini worked in at one time or another. ~ Tim Sendra
Hometown
United States of America
Genre
Rock