Mogwai's album, 'The Bad Fire,' reviewed by Rolling Stone.
, the gloomy Glaswegians’ 11th record , are bright red, yellow, white, and periwinkle. Anyone who’s followed the post-rock group’s three-decade history knows, though, that Mogwai’s music burns neon blue — creating pure, clean heat but with the look of a bruise, a sense of confidence but with awareness of the damage that generates it. The title is a Scottish euphemism for Hell, but Mogwai have always favored purgatory.
Since the late Nineties, melancholia has been the quartet’s milieu — chord changes that favor lumbering, slow-building anxiety and drama over any impulse to rock. Instead they’ve mastered a dynamic tension that Charles Atlas would’ve envied. The band’s general taciturnity on its first albums, 1997’svia a 1977 interview sample) but in hindsight their music feels more kinship with orchestral minimalism, ambient music, and even slowcore rock.
They found the core of their sound in the past two decades since becoming a go-to band for eerie, uncomfortable soundtracks, notably for the French TV series. Now they have to define what Mogwai, the band, is compared to Mogwai the composers. Since exploring the more lucrative world of film composition, their albums have felt more expressive of the depressive feelings that drove them early on produced, when the group applies its worldview in new ways.
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