Rock Action Mogwai Rar
Dec 26, 2017 - Label:Rock Action Records Catalog#: rockact 01 Format: Vinyl, 7', Single, Limited Edition Country:UKReleased:Mar 1996Genre: Rock Style:. Rock Action.2001. Mogwai - Rock Action.2001 [ Full Album ]. Mogwai; Album Rock Action; Writers John Cummings.
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We were going to write a little blurb introducing Mogwai's forthcoming eighth album, Rave Tapes. But then the band's Stuart Braithwaite offered to do it for us - which was nice, and he didn't even take us up on our offer to write the next Mogwai album for him in return. Take it away Stuart ..
'Hello people. Welcome to the stream of our forthcoming album Rave Tapes. We wrote and recorded the record last year, starting writing in January and finishing mixing just before Halloween. It was written between our scabby, rat-infested rehearsal space in the Gorbals Glasgow, mine and John's home studios and Barry's practice space in Berlin. Before going in to record in our Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow (neither scabby nor rat infested, thankfully) we rehearsed together for a few weeks to work on arrangements.
The album was recorded by Paul Savage who we worked on for our early single Summer as well as our first record Mogwai Young Team and our most recent Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. Paul was also a member of The Delgados, the owners of Chemikal Undergound Records who released our first two records. He's a great guy and very good at keeping us in check. That said I'm still pissed off at him for taping over the original 22 minute take of Mogwai Fear Satan as it had too many mistakes. We could have fixed those mistakes with computers these days! Though that might be the musical equivalent of that awful digital muppet dancing scene they added to Return Of the Jedi.
The album has ten songs and features drums (both real and electronic), guitars, synthesizers, piano and singing (both vocodered and human). We hope you like it!'
Scottish guitar army colonels Mogwai have some new tricks up their sleeve. Take a listen below to a full-length preview MP3 from their upcoming album The Hawk Is Howling (September 23, Matador Records).
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The band’s standard guitar excellence of Stuart Braithwaite and John Cummings, as combined with Dominic Aitchison’s bass, Barry Burns’ keyboards and drummer Marty Bulloch’s pacemaking encounter sunnier climes in this track, aptly titled 'The Sun Smells Too Loud.'
This song is instantly recognizable as a Mogwai song to those familiar with their sound, yet ventures off in a new sonic direction that should seduce even veterans of the band’s aesthetic. The changes seem a bit more daring this time around, especially in the keyboard area, as the band examines new harmonic and textural possibilities.
As usual, not a single element is out of place — you get the feeling that Mogwai’s songs just couldn’t be any other way. Your mileage may vary.
I can’t wait to hear the rest of this album, but in the meantime, here’s a full-length MP3 of 'The Sun Smells Too Loud,' which my friend Gabe described as 'the best Mogwai song in ten years.'
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(Photo courtesy of Mogwai; Thanks, Gabe)
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