Slow builds, skyscraping climaxes, deep melancholy tempered by European grandeur: You pretty much know what you’re getting when you come to a Mogwai album, but rarely have they given it up with such ease as they do on As the Love Continues, their 10th LP. For a band whose central theme has remained almost industrially consistent, they’ve built up plenty of variations on it: the sparkling, New Agey electronics of “Dry Fantasy”, the classic indie rock sound of “Ceiling Granny” and “Ritchie Sacramento”, the ’80s dance rhythms of “Supposedly, We Were Nightmares”. Even when they reach for their signature build-and-release (“Midnight Flit”), you get the sense of a band not just marching towards an inevitable climax but relishing in texture, nuance and note-to-note intricacies that make that climax feel fresh again. And while they’ve always been beautiful, they’ve also seemed to treat that beauty as an intellectual liability, something to be undermined in the name of staying sharp.

Tracklisting

1. To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth
2. Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever
3. Dry Fantasy
4. Ritchie Sacramento
5. Drive The Nail
6. Fuck Off Money
7. Ceiling Granny
8. Midnight Flit
9. Pat Stains
10. Supposedly, We Were Nightmares
11. It’s What I Want To Do, Mum.
12. To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth (Demo)
13. Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever (Demo)
14. Supposedly, We Were Nightmares (Demo)
15. Drive The Nail (Demo)
16. It’s What I Want To Do, Mum. (Demo)
17. To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth
18. Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever
19. Dry Fantasy
20. Ritchie Sacramento
21. Drive The Nail
22. Fuck Off Money
23. Ceiling Granny
24. Midnight Flit
25. Pat Stains
26. Supposedly, We Were Nightmares
27. It’s What I Want To Do, Mum.

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Videos

Mogwai // Dry Fantasy (Official Video)

More Videos

• Mogwai - Ritchie Sacramento (Official Video)
• Mogwai - Pat Stains (Official Audio)

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