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| 11. Mogwai “Rock Action” (Album - (Southpaw) ) |
| Mogwai have grown up. Since the release of their previous 2 albums, “Young team” and “Come on Die Young”
there’s been a change. The progression from their musical adolescence hasn’t shocked them enough into
incorporating any appropriate “old” related words into their title of their new album but it’s certainly managed to
mellow them out. As has the fact that within the 2 years since their last album many other bands have followed
suit and are making music all too similar to their groundbreaking style of 99. So, time to move on and
as Stuart Braithwaite of the band explained “We’ve brought on the banjos, the violins, the trombones and I did
some singing. But he also managed to drop in “There’s still some noise though” – and there is, just not noise to
the same degree.
Having said that, just for old times sake, Rock Action does open with an irritatingly incoherent kind of fuzzy
feedback with “Sine Wave” but then reassuringly simmers down into the following track “Take Me Somewhere
Nice”. And, as an epic cacophony of powerful yet dainty musical imagery, it manages to do just that. The
remainder of the album, half songs, half instrumentals, keeps the turbulence and the graceful/raucous juxtapositions to a
comparative minimum. |
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