New releases // Sep 1, 2017

Mogwai

Every Country's Sun

  • Limited deluxe edition opaque white vinyl.
  • Standard black vinyl.
September 1, 2017
12" Album / Rock Action / Rock, Electronic
Mogwai announce new album Every Country's Sun, the follow-up to 2014's Rave Tapes, and shares first song Coolverine which you can listen below.

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”). Their most transportive album yet, it also hosts their most fully realized art-pop sing-along of their storied history, “Party In The Dark,” a head-spinning disco-dream double-helix echoing New Order and The Flaming Lips, featuring Braithwaite's seldom-heard melodic vocals declaring he's “directionless and innocent, searching for another piece of mind”. This is music as a keep-out chrysalis, protective audio armor through exalting organs and portentous, dissonant guitar fuzz warping at the edges, bending the world inside-out into a reality in which you'd much rather live. The last three songs ascend into explosive exorcism, closing with the colossal “Every Country's Sun,” its searching intensity whooshing towards infinity in a dazzling cosmic crescendo.

Deluxe Edition includes Every Country's Sun on exclusive Opaque White 180 Gram colored vinyl, an exclusive bonus 180 Gram 12" featuring previously unreleased demos, the Compact Disc™ format of Every Country's Sun, and an exclusive set of 7 photo prints – all packaged in a beautiful, sturdy full-color box.
Tracklist:
  • 1. Coolverine
  • 2. Party In The Dark
  • 3. Brain Sweeties
  • 4. Crossing The Road Material
  • 5. aka 47
  • 6. 20 Size
  • 7. 1000 Foot Face
  • 8. Don't Believe The Fife
  • 9. Battered At The Scramble
  • 10. Old Poisons
  • 11. Every Country's Sun
  • Deluxe edition bonus 12" tracklisting:
  • 1. Acoustic Wash Demo Rough Mix
  • 2. Baritone 2 Demo Rough Mix
  • 3. Bass Tuned To C Demo Rough Mix
  • 4. Bends Demo Rough Mix
  • 5. Frez Demo Rough Mix
  • 6. Ludicrous Ripper Demo Rough Mix

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