God they must have had fun making this! First new music in a while and a taster for forthcoming album ‘The Bad Fire’, this late 2024 track is monstrous, anthemic but also playful and pretty hilarious.
In between the usual raging guitar themes there are some mad, almost self-parodying, solos from Stuart, not the kind of stuff you usually find on Mogwai recorded releases anyway.
There are some vocodered vocals somewhere deep in the mix along with multiple guitar abuse and some buzzsaw feedback, at times sounding like someone dismantling an HGV with a hacksaw.
In short, the track gives all of what Mogwai have to offer in a compact and enjoyable package, and sounds as fresh as anything they have done in their 20+ and counting career. No chance of stagnating or sitting pretty with this lot – and appearing soon at probably the smallest Glasgow venue they have done in the while, the QMU, in February…
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