Mogwai

Mr Beast

Difficult fifth album 'Mr. Beast' took a bit longer to arrive, a full three years, but despite all the hype and hyperbole before release it wasn't any particularly radical departure. In fact, this is about the point in time where the 'post-rock formula' was starting to get criticised a little for being somewhat predictable and played out.

'Glasgow Mega-Snake' and 'We're No Here' do a good job of 'out-rock'ing' the competition but most of the rest is just far too similar to the band's previous ... read more

Mogwai are usually talked as being a second range post-rock band, staying in the shadow of huge names such as GY!BE or Sigur Rós, but, in fact, they were very important to the genre as a whole, conrtibuting with epics like Young Team and Happy Songs for Happy People, in which the blissful canon is exploited in a rich and dreamy way, much alike their bigger brothers, in matters of sound and even quality. What may put the band's name under others is, much likely, the amount of filler ... read more

Another example of the drastic inconsistency of the records that Mogwai put out. I go into every one of them really hoping for some nuggets, for some gems, but I'm frequently left wanting.

The People Without A Smile