Mogwai

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• Mogwai: The Bad Fire Album Review | Pitchfork | Jan. 23, 2025, 5:02 a.m.
Appearing two tracks into The Bad Fire, “Hi Chaos” reads like Mogwai’s version of “hello Newman”: a habitual greeting to an old adversary encountered time and time again. But as the song ...

• On Mogwai’s ‘The Bad Fire,’ Purgatory Never Sounded So Good | Rolling Stone | Jan. 27, 2025, midnight
The colors of Mogwai‘s volcanic explosions on the cover of The Bad Fire, the gloomy Glaswegians’ 11th record (by their count), are bright red, yellow, white, and periwinkle.Anyone who’s ...

• Mogwai – The Bad Fire | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews ... | Clash Magazine | Jan. 24, 2025, 9:11 a.m.
Four years on and ‘The Bad Fire’ is the Glasgow band’s eleventh studio album. Recorded in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, at Chem19 studios with Grammy-Award winning producer John Congleton, their latest keeps things on brand by offering another highly emotive masterclass of (mainly) instrumental post rock.

• Album review: Mogwai – The Bad Fire | Kerrang! | Jan. 20, 2025, 2:27 p.m.
Album review: Mogwai – The Bad Fire. Glaswegian post-rock overlords Mogwai go to hell and back on eerie, enthralling, ultimately euphoric eleventh album. January 20, 2025. Words: Sam Law.

• Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – Plenty of gruff authenticity, plus a ... | The Irish Times | Jan. 23, 2025, 5:01 a.m.
The best Mogwai songs simultaneously grab you by the scruff and spear your heart, and there is at least one such moment on The Bad Fire: the single Fanzine Made of Flesh, which pairs a chugging ...

• Mogwai Find New in the Familiar with ‘The Bad Fire’ | PopMatters | Jan. 21, 2025, midnight
Given their 11th album’s 24 January 2025 release date, Mogwai seem to have known that things would be challenging for the world after 2024. Its title, The Bad Fire, is Scottish slang for...

• Mogwai - The Bad Fire review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Jan. 22, 2025, midnight
Those experiences inspired the record’s title, a Glaswegian colloquialism for hell, but whilst Mogwai have conjured up more than their share of doomy, nightmarish soundscapes over the years, ‘The Bad Fire’ is more a testament to keeping the devil off your back than confronting him head-on.

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