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Last weekend I met an old friend I hadn’t seen in quite a while. He told me he had just got the new self-titled Mogwai 4 track EP. I flipped. Hadn’t they just released the glorious 'Come On Die Young' a couple of months ago? Could I be in for yet another amazing trip to what I can only describe as a breezy, downcast place where there’s perpetual dusk/dawn and beautiful, perfect math reigns supreme? Or as the day after the birth/funeral? The split second you wake up and realize that the carcrash was just a dream? Wait a sec, was I ready to go through all this again in the first place? Fuck yeah, I was!
He, who shall remain nameless was all glassy-eyed about it. And as far as I know this young dude, that means something. So today I went to the store and got me a copy. Damnit, my friend was right. It’s even better than Come On Die Young! The tracks are somehow EVEN more together, better constructed, more balanced, never too short or too long, the intensity’s more controlled. Maybe it’s because they have more of a song structure. I dunno but I kept my eyes closed end my mouth open during the first spin. Breathtaking.
These 4 slow tracks, all in all not amounting to more than 21 minutes present Mogwai at the top of their game. Each one of them (the stylishly mournful opener Stanley Kubrick, the sweetly lullabyish Christmas Song, the slo-mo, reflective allegory of Burn Girl Prom Queen and Rage: Man) is simply metaphysical. There’s just no other way for me to describe this record. I already know what I’m going to play in my car stereo on that tropical beach, awaiting the first dawn of the new millenium. What I’ll play to my little nephew/niece as soon as he/ she’s born in February. What about you?
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/mogwai/mogwai-792/792/
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