[2014-01-21] Mogwai "Rave Tapes" (Rock Action / Sub Pop)

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Rave Tapes is the eighth studio album by Mogwai and their second on Rock Action, the label they set up almost 18 years ago to issue their debut 7in single, Tuner/Lower. In between, the Scottish quintet have established themselves on the international stage through a prolific recorded output and a commitment to touring that few of their peers can match.

Clocking in at just under 50 minutes, the 10-track album is a lustrous collection mined from the same quarry as its predecessors, wreathed in painterly textures underpinned by increasingly electronic beats. The haunted strains of 'Deesh' channel the slow-burning ecstasy of their 2006 song “Auto Rock” (a key presence in the denouement of Michael Mann’s film of Miami Vice that year) while the guitars on which Mogwai built their reputation remain, if for the most part less overtly belligerent this time round, as evidenced by the somnambulant opener “Heard About You Last Night” and the sonic scowl of “Hexon Bogon”. With Rave Tapes, Mogwai’s mastery of sound and space is firmly at its apex.

1. Heard About You Last Night
2. Simon Ferocious
3. Remurdered
4. Hexon Bogon
5. Repelish
6. Master Card
7. Deesh
8. Blues Hour
9. No Medicine For Regret
10. The Lord Is Out Of Control

CD
TBD [US]
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00G9Q3NBM/?tag=imwan-21 [UK]

Vinyl
Includes MP3 download
TBD [US]
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00G9Q3N9O/?tag=imwan-21 [UK]

Deluxe Edition (Vinyl/CD)
Includes gatefold vinyl LP and CD with bonus 12” and 7" discs, 40-page photo book, three 12"x12” art prints, and t-shirt
TBD

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Initial pre-orders placed through Sub Pop will receive a bonus 7" with two additional songs.

http://www.subpop.com/releases/mogwai/f ... rave_tapes

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

"Remurdered"

[2014-01-21] Mogwai "Rave Tapes" (Rock Action / Sub Pop)

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