– Mogwai – Live In Glasgow – Jan. 20, 2014 – BBC Scotland –
Mogwai this Election Day morning. As one of those post-rock bands who have plumbed the vast reaches of dreamscape, Mogwai have created a heady mixture of noise, shoegaze, a bit of Art Rock with a dash of Metal here and there. They’ve been at it since 1995 and have an impressive 11 albums to their credit.
Early on in Mogwai’s history, their music drew on Sonic Youth, Joy Division, and My Bloody Valentine. Over the following years, the band would incorporate elements from a wide range of bands and artists, including the God Machine, Rodan, Low, Neu!, Philip Glass, MC5, Fugazi, Aphex Twin, the Orb, and post-rock pioneers Slint. Braithwaite also listed Nirvana, Kraftwerk, and guitarist John McGeoch as personal influences.
Mogwai’s style has easily identifiable connections to genres such as shoegaze, math rock, and art rock. Debut album Mogwai Young Team was described as “stunningly dynamic…[shifting] seamlessly from tranquil, bleakly beautiful soundscapes to brain scrambling white noise and sledgehammer riffing”. Douglas Wolk, writing for SPIN in 1999 said of the band: “Their compositions have gotten increasingly drawn-out and austere over time, sometimes barely more than a single arpeggiated chord or two evolving for ten minutes or more, whisperingly brutal in a way that recalls Slint more than any other band”. Barry Burns once stated in an interview that he and the rest of the band do not like the categorization of post-rock because he believes it over-analyses everything.
This concert, recorded by BBCGlasgow on January 20, 2014 at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Glasgow and relayed by Sveriges Radio P3 just recently. In Sweden they are characterized as “distorted melancholy” – further evidence their influence is world wide.
If you aren’t familiar with Mogwai – what are you waiting for? You’ve had 10 years to check them out. No excuses.
A luxuriant sampling from a band refusing to play it safe.
Mogwai – Glasgow 2014 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
– Mogwai – Live In Glasgow – Jan. 20, 2014 – BBC Scotland –
Mogwai this Election Day morning. As one of those post-rock bands who have plumbed the vast reaches of dreamscape, Mogwai have created a heady mixture of noise, shoegaze, a bit of Art Rock with a dash of Metal here and there. They’ve been at it since 1995 and have an impressive 11 albums to their credit.
Early on in Mogwai’s history, their music drew on Sonic Youth, Joy Division, and My Bloody Valentine. Over the following years, the band would incorporate elements from a wide range of bands and artists, including the God Machine, Rodan, Low, Neu!, Philip Glass, MC5, Fugazi, Aphex Twin, the Orb, and post-rock pioneers Slint. Braithwaite also listed Nirvana, Kraftwerk, and guitarist John McGeoch as personal influences.
Mogwai’s style has easily identifiable connections to genres such as shoegaze, math rock, and art rock. Debut album Mogwai Young Team was described as “stunningly dynamic…[shifting] seamlessly from tranquil, bleakly beautiful soundscapes to brain scrambling white noise and sledgehammer riffing”. Douglas Wolk, writing for SPIN in 1999 said of the band: “Their compositions have gotten increasingly drawn-out and austere over time, sometimes barely more than a single arpeggiated chord or two evolving for ten minutes or more, whisperingly brutal in a way that recalls Slint more than any other band”. Barry Burns once stated in an interview that he and the rest of the band do not like the categorization of post-rock because he believes it over-analyses everything.
This concert, recorded by BBC Glasgow on January 20, 2014 at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Glasgow and relayed by Sveriges Radio P3 just recently. In Sweden they are characterized as “distorted melancholy” – further evidence their influence is world wide.
If you aren’t familiar with Mogwai – what are you waiting for? You’ve had 10 years to check them out. No excuses.
A luxuriant sampling from a band refusing to play it safe.
Lucky us.
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