[2017-09-08] Mogwai "Every Country's Sun" (Temporary Residence)

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

Description
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.

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

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BWXQVK/?tag=imwan-20

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

In addition to the standard CD release, US label Temporary Residence is also featuring a vinyl bundle which includes a free "Party In The Dark" 7-inch single and a Deluxe Edition LP/CD set which includes a bonus 12-inch collection of non-album demos:

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

More details and ordering information may be found on the Temporary Residence website.

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

In anticipation of Friday's release, the pre-order price for the CD has been reduced by more than $3, down to $11.39:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BWXQVK/?tag=imwan-20

Now, here are two promo videos:

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

"Crossing The Road Material":

[2017-09-08] Mogwai "Every Country's Sun" (Temporary Residence)

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