Mogwai

Artist: Mogwai
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 09/23/2008
Label: Matador
Catalog Number: OLE 832-2
Recording: Studio
Length: 01:3:30
Format: CD (1 Used)

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Media Condition: Good CD Comments: Some wear to digipak. Review You could make the argument – as many have – that over the last few years Mogwai’s comfort zone looks an awfully lot like a rut. On paper, at least, that interpretation follows. After all, the Scots’ six full-length is more of the same: Brooding sections of minor-key melodies that play out as ominous soundtracks (“Local Authority”); epic transitions from kindling into full-crescendo conflagration (“I Love You, I’m Going to Blow”); and metal-inspired maelstroms of stomp-box mayhem and sonic apocalypse (“Batcat”). This is the Mogwai way --create (or reflect) a cold, uncaring universe, then spit in its face with anguished howls of rage and grief, resulting in epilogues of post-traumatic spiritual calm. But what makes their comfort zone transcend (1996 debut Young Team) or rut-like (06’s Mr. Beast) is harder to discern (though Beast’s brevity didn’t suit them), as their re-energized latest suggests. Here, as on the jaunty “The Sun Smells Too Loud,” Mogwai sounds fully engaged again: catchy rhythms, fat-bass rumble, synth-and-organ primer coats for a neon splashes of guitar riffs whose edges are smeared with fuzz; “Kings Meadow” is like crossing hallowed ground, subtle backward loops and synth whirrs forming the forest-green to the guitar lines’ hazy sunlight; the gentle vibes and Rhodes of “Thank You Space Expert” expanding into an acid-epiphany of universal one-ness, like seeing a supernova go off. Post-rock is, we’re told ad nauseum, played out. To their credit, Mogwai sticks to its guns and says “horseshit,” and does so magnificently here. -John Schacht		Buy $7.99

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Disc 1 Titles	Artist	Length
1. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead	Mogwai	06:44
2. Batcat	Mogwai	05:25
3. Danphe & the Brain	Mogwai	05:18
4. Local Authority	Mogwai	04:15
5. The Sun Smells Too Loud	Mogwai	06:58
6. Kings Meadow	Mogwai	04:42
7. I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School	Mogwai	07:33
8. Scotland's Shame	Mogwai	08:00
9. Thank You Space Expert	Mogwai	07:53
10. The Precipice	Mogwai	06:42

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