Mogwai - The Bad Fire (2LP Clear Vinyl)

Mogwai - The Bad Fire (2LP Clear Vinyl)The arrival of a new Mogwai album their eleventh is cause for great celebration. The albums title, The Bad Fire, is a working class Glaswegian term for Hell. It reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through. New to the studio was American producer John Congleton, known for his work with Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rs, John Grant and pretty much everyone in between. Congletons work can be heard on the albums three singles.

aka acclaimed Merseyside-based producer Matthew Barnes

they found themselves returning time and again to the artists who inspired them to start the group over a decade ago

Brute teeters between rage and despair

I don’t think I went on a computer that whole week we were in Pasadena

utilizing his sizable collection of vintage tape machines

they are proud to release

the latter suggests stasis

Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s

2020 expands to include the full band

' gets things off to a guitar-heavy start

The three young men who made the album – Mike Kinsella

guitarist Michael Rother and the Cluster duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius