Mogwai to release 'interesting' new album in February 2011
The group are set to work on the follow-up to 2008's 'The Hawk Is Howling'

August 6, 2010
http://www.nme.com/news/mogwai/52392



Mogwai have revealed that they will release their next album in February 2011.

Set to be the group's seventh studio album, guitarist Stuart Braithwaite has admitted the as-yet untitled LP will be "interesting".

"I think it's going to be an interesting record," Braithwaite told SpinnerMusic.co.uk. "Quite often, when we go into the studio our songs are nearly written. There's almost a tone of a song, but as the whole band, you haven't realized where it's going."

As previously reported, the band will be working on the follow-up to 2008's 'The Hawk Is Howling' with drummer Paul Savage, who also worked on the group's 1997 debut 'Mogwai Young Team'.

Mogwai to release new album 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will'

October 27, 2010
http://www.nme.com/news/mogwai/53588



Mogwai will release a new album, 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will', early next year.

The record, which was recorded over the summer, will be released on February 14 and is the band's seventh album.

The tracklisting for the album is:

'White Noise'
'Mexican Grand Prix'
'Rano Pano'
'Death Rays'
'San Pedro'
'Letters To The Metro'
'George Square Thatcher Death Party'
'How To Be A Werewolf'
'Too Raging To Cheers'
'You're Lionel Richie'

Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite: 'Our new album title is inspired by neds and chavs!'
Braithwaite explains 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will''s origins

November 1, 2010
http://www.nme.com/news/mogwai/53663



Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite has said the band came up with their new album title 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will' after a bizarre run-in at an off-licence.

The frontman told NME that the phrase was overheard by a friend around the time the band were considering album titles, and that it immediately stood out.

"A friend of James Hamilton – the drummer from Errors – heard a 'ned' say it," he explained, adding: "A chav is what I suppose you would call a 'ned' in England. Anyway, he apparently just came out with it and said it to a shopkeeper who wouldn't sell him wine because he was too young."

Braithwaite added that the phrase seems to have gone down well among the band's fans.

"People like it! We actually had a really hard time coming up with the title," he said. "We were really close to calling it a load of tragically bad stuff. The worst one was 'Mega Album 7', which is absolutely horrendous. I mean, I'm the master of the album titles, but I just wasn't really feeling it."

Speaking of the recording process for the album, which is due out on February 14, Braithwaite said: "It's been quite full-on because we weren't all living in Scotland when we were writing it. John [Cummings, guitarist] lives in New York and Barry [Burns, guitars and keyboards] lives in Berlin. We were writing the album via email so it was different. When we actually got together to play the songs it was probably the hardest we've worked."

A 26-minute track called 'The Singing Mountain' will be included on bonus editions of the album, and Braithwaite revealed that the volcanic ash cloud, which disrupted air traffic around the world in April, had a hand in the song's recording process.

"Oh my god, that was really tortuous! Barry wrote the music when the ash cloud thing happened, but he literally couldn't get back to Scotland so we never got to play it together," he recalled. "It kind of got pieced together in the studio. It's an unbelievably complicated piece of music, but it's good. And it's also the polar opposite of the actual album too, which sounds like New Order pop songs."