New Mogwai album out sept.23rd , mp3 of new song..
 

here.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=1847

sounds weird.
all the guys who'd like to express how mogwai have a bad influence on music and on our poor world in general, no need to repeat yourselves in here.

i only want them to make another album like young team or rock action.

CODY was also excellent!
and what about ten rapid!!!
super band, has been coherent for more than twelve years.

Sounds pretty neat. Anybody have a download link for it?

I think they'll do the "look back" thing and play Young Team now that it has been reissued, but maybe I just made all this up in my mind.

i think you may be right

Young Team topped it for me. I'm sure I'll be lynched for this, but Mogwai (and Tortoise, on a related tangent) had grown quite repetitive to me for a while.

I'm hallucinating.

That's right. I DON'T WORSHIP MOGWAI. Suck it.

Neither do I, but your presence in here is kinda surprising. I mean, not "in here" as in "in this thread", "in here" as in "back on the board".

i really can't get excited about them, some cool songs and all but, they don't get me moving.

i like mono (to use a band that's kinda considered to be in the same league) better because they sound exciting to me.

I am an internet wind, blowing mysteriously in and out of the chasms of virtual reality, for the sole purpose of voicing irrelevant opinions and belittling others for my sadistic amusement.

thanks for the link nic

Blech. Mr. Beast should have been the nail in the coffin for this band.

They've just played 2 dates at a Spanish festival where exactly that happened, but haven't announced any more :(

The new EP's out shortly too, and I think we can all at least agree that the EP & album feature some of the best song titles in a while:

"stupid prick gets chased by the polis and loses his slut girlfriend"
"i'm jim morrison, i'm dead"
"i love you, i'm going to blow up your school"

:)

ha ha I was about to add a post saying "well, the new album might not be the most interesting things ever, but the song titles are ace", and then the tracklist.
and here it is:
1 I'm Jim Morrison, I'm dead
2 Batcat
3 Danphe and The Brain
4 Local Authority
5 The Sun Smells Too Loud
6 Kings Meadow
7 I Love you, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School
8 Scotland’s Shame
9 Thank You Space Expert
10 The Precipice

Stuart Braithwaite, was responisble for putting Snow Patrol on at ATP........................

"....'nuff said"

I like that new title. Can't wait for the album!

hey! this new song kinda sucks no?
It's going nowhere
It's Pixies meets Bananarama to me.
mmmm
but i still like it
fuck!

I am very excited about this. I still love this band very very much and give all their records (with an exception of reasonably weak "Happy Songs..") a deserved frequent spin.
I hope their properly tour all corners of Europe again.

I have to disagree. Mono, to my ears, are one of the most boring bands currently around. Definitely not up my alley.

Pfff. In my book, Happy Songs is second only to MYT. That's not counting Ten Rapid mind.

happy songs has a weird production that detracts quite a lot of impact from the songs, imo. Live it's pretty great, even if ,as on record, there are a few bits a bit too new-ageish... last one I liked quite a lot, especially live. They play in italy at the end of this week, but I think I won't make it (400 kms from my city).
The fact that this new track is n°5 in the tracklist makes me think the rest of the album might be quite heavy, I have this weird idea in my mind that tracks 4, 7 and 9 are the defining ones in most albums (not just by mogway, by any band). I know some records don't even have 7 songs, but you got the idea.
this theory proved to be somewhat accurate on a number of occasions.

The only thing that bugs me about Happy Songs is that one track (I think it's 2nd or 3rd on side 2 of the LP) that sounds like an instrumental Smashing Pumpkins song. Other than that it's great.
Mr Beast was decent, but it kinda struck me as sounding like a mathematical average of the previous 4 albums condensed into one.

I loved Mr. Beast, a lot. But to be honest, I haven't even got any other Mogwai albums (kill me now), which bums me out, but I still love Mr. Beast a ton. (Yes, I have heard CODY, but not in a very long time.)
This new song doesn't even really sound like Mogwai, I'm looking forward to what the rest of the album will be like. (not based on this song, I kinda dig this one, but Mogwai can do better!)

I often find track 6 is my favourite on the album.... just sayin'....

oh, that new song is crappy.
but good news, they play in Vienna in November!

I heard one song off it and I wish i hadn't.

Life is hard, huh?
Sarram, do you have some more scans of your drawings to post in the art thread? Yesterday I was thinking about your older ones and kinda wished you posted some more.

I heard one song off it and it sounds like the same melody that they have been playing now for a quite a few years.

I really like Happy Songs

And track 6 is my favourite off mr Beast. But other than maybe 2 tracks i dont really like it. which is a shame cause the 'Gwai are awsome

cant wait for this album.... i adore young team but mr beast was a kind of a let down to be honest...


mono... funny story.. my mate in dublin who promotes ultra cool gigs, (melt banana, shellac, liars, acid mothers, pissed jeans, caribou, battles, etc etc) brought his girlfirend and 6 year old daughter and mates out to dinner with acid mothers temple the day after a gig in dublin. amt have no real english at all so they spent 2 hours over dinner in complete polite silence as the general conversation whittled on....the subject of bands arose and my mate timo mentioned the mono gig that just happened....... makotos ears pricked and uttered 2 words, his only two words of the night, apart from thank you..... "MONO...........................baaaaaaaaaaaaaad!"

thought it was a funny story.

baaaaaaaaaaaaaad as in "good" or baaaaaaaaaaaaaad as in "bad"?

baaaaad as in shite, terrible, boring, fuckwits!

spot on, spot on

i like them, but the more "classic music" path they're in now can be indeed a bit boring. But songs like the kidnapper bell are amazing(for example).

i am the only one alive that really dislikes you are here.... i thought it was boring as hell. one more step and you die is a great album and falling snow and other stuff with airy fairy words which mean diddly squant when translated from japanese to english album is ok as well.

Another new song! I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3GMDG5WB

It's an amazing one, really beautiful, can't wait for the album!

is that a huge rick roll animated gif?

Nope, it's really the track, and it's fucking beautiful, it has a splendid piano