Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun – VINYL 2LP

Description

Every Country’s Sun takes two decades of Mogwai’s signature, contrasting sounds – towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume – and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock, and transcendental euphoria. Produced by psych-rock luminary Dave Fridmann, it’s a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle, twinkling, synth-rock spectre to a solid, blown-out, skyward-thrusting obelisk. There’s percussive, dream-state electronics (“Coolverine”), church organs as chariots of existential fire (“Brain Sweeties”), tremulous, foreboding bleeping – possibly from a dying android (“AKA 47”).

A1 Coolverine
A2 Party In The Dark
A3 Brain Sweeties
B1 Crossing The Road Material
B2 Aka 47
B3 20 Size
C1 1000 Foot Face
C2 Don’t Believe The Fife
D1 Battered At A Scramble
D2 Old Poisons
D3 Every Country’s Sun