Mogwai - Central Belters - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. White Noise 2. Mexican Grand Prix 3. Rano Pano 4. Death Rays 5. San Pedro 6. Letters to the Metro 7. George Square Thatcher Death Party 8. How to Be a Werewolf 9. Too Raging to Cheers 10. You're Lionel Ritchie

Atomic, the new album by Scottish experimental rock legends Mogwai, is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousins' acclaimed documentary Atomic Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer. Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times - protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima - but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. Mogwai's soundtrack encapsulates the nightmare of the nuclear age, but it's dreamlike qualities too. It is the latest in the band's series of impressive soundtracks and scores, following acclaimed albums Les Revenants (The Returned) and Zidane A 21st Century Portrait. Album Tracks 1. Ether 2. Scram 3. Bitterness Centrifuge 4. U-235 5. Pripyat 6. Weak Force 7. Little Boy 8. Are You a Dancer? 9. Tzar 10. Fat Man

The arrival of a new Mogwai album - their eleventh - is cause for great celebration. The album's 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 Rós, John Grant and pretty much everyone in between. Congleton's work can be heard on the album's three singles. The album opener InchGod Gets You BackInch sounds like Daft Punk being hunted by My Bloody Valentine, while InchFanzine Made Of FleshInch sounds like a victory parade for a baby yeti; and InchLion RumpusInch does actually sound like a lion rumpus. The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience. At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground. Yet the music contains an updraft, a sense of beauty encased in the onslaught. This holds you up, suspended and empowered, reminding you that paradise is your birthright. This is especially true of The Bad Fire. It may have been created in dark conditions, but all that is transcended by the act of four musicians working together here, now, in the moment - the only place where Mogwai exist. Album Tracks 1. God Gets You Back 2. Hi Chaos 3. What Kind of Mix Is This? 4. Fanzine Made of Flesh 5. Pale Vegan Hip Pain 6. If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others 7. 18 Volcanoes 8. Hammer Room 9. Lion Rumpus 10. Fact Boy 11. God Gets You Back (Demo Version) 12. Hi Chaos (Demo Version) 13. What Kind of Mix Is This? (Demo Version) 14. Pale Vegan Hip Pain (Demo Version) 15. If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others (Demo Version) 16. 18 Volcanoes (Demo Version) 17. Hammer Room (Demo