Mogwai - Mr Beast
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Artist: MogwaiEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- Auto Rock
- Glasgow Mega-Snake
- Acid Food
- Travel Is Dangerous
- Team Handed
- Friend Of The Night
- Emergency Trap
- Folk Death 95
- I Chose Horses
- We're No Here
Music reviews of Mr Beast
Music Review: Mogwai: Mr. Beast (Matador)
Rating: 4 Stars
My biggest prediction about this album is that Mr. Beast will be their substitute of a definitive album for a band who introduced to me the beauty of post-rock. Different songs sound like something that is a B-Side off of another album, and some of the stuff on the album sounds like it just recently written. It's like the closest you can ever get to their greatest hits album and just the thing to introduce the best of Mogwai to those who haven't heard of them.
The swirling beginning of the first song "Auto Rock" kick off with a bit of piano that reminds you of the glowing heart they placed inside your chest during Happy Songs and Young Team. "Auto Rock" stomps and creeps the sky with the beauty that you never thought a band like Mogwai would bring in the beginning. It is just a wonder you never hear a burst of fuzz in the middle as you are listening. That is because the music was based on placing some restraint. All of the fuzz and cutup music you may be able to hear is on the hard-rockng "Glasgowmegasnake", which is what you are likely to find on albums like Rock Action. The music also has the power you are more likely to find in Happy Songs' "Ratts of the Capital". The downside is they don't resort to letting you down easy. The just stop the music right where it is. Quite a questionable transition from that to the head-bopping "Acid Food",, which comes to a lilting close with country guitar slides. "Acid Food" and their long take on "O I Sleep" from Rock Action, "Travel is Dangerous" are the only songs that feature the bands' vocals whereas "I Chose Heroes" features a Japanese frontman of a band speaking through the song. "Travel is Dangerous" plays like the type of Nu-Metal tune that not many has mastered. Mogwai also then sounded like a real band trying to release light out of their guitars.
"Team-Handed" although their darkest on the album is one of their weakest tracks next to the rough-edged yet practically leveled and mostly idle take on the empty-jab "Ratts" "Folk Death '95". I take it most of you already heard the majestic and heartwarming answer to Explosions in the Sky's "Your Hand in Mine" "Friend of the Night" which sounds like a mesh between "Ratts of the Capital", "Golden Porsche" and "I Know You Are but What Am I?", all found on Happy Songs for Happy People. The thing about this song is that it will do more than touch your heart, but if you want to, you can imagine a storyline full of flying children and the scary woods. It's arguably THE best song on the album.
"Emergency Trap" isn't one to be talked about, really. The type of song you'd listen to on a rainy day, if it already doesn't take it's place as part filler. "I Chose Horses" bring out the vocoder to set the mood for scenic while a man talks quiet enough to make it sound as if you are looking off of a cold mountain and the Almighty was talking to you. That is when they bring out the big bang of the album "We're No Here", putting their new take on "Stop Coming to My House" by releasing the very restraint the band has to burst upon you in every song. And "We're No Here" is your one chance to hear the stars pop and create something new within the galaxy. The Mogwai album that we never expected to have an urge to top so much. But Mogwai could actually top Happy Songs by a few songs and some more additives to further blow your heart to extreme proportions.
If I am wrong on any of these references, there is seriously one thing you just can't deny. Listening to Mr. Beast is like listening to every Mogwai album ever put out. And what newcomer wouldn't want anything more than to bump into a brand new album posing as a wonderful collective, only to have them run into an album that builds a new space for a galaxy in your soul?
Rating: 7.75/10
Description of Mr Beast
Though there are still hints aplenty of the subtle beauty that adorned big chunks of "Rock Action" and "Happy Songs For Happy People", there's an equal portion of head crushers on this one that'll leave you gasping for air. "An ultramodern rock masterpiece" - Mojo. "The Stephen Kings of menacing post-rock" - Pitchfork. Formats include standard CD in regular jewelcase, limited edition deluxe CD + DVD in a hardbound book, and double LP in a gatefold jacket.With tune titles like "Glasgow Mega-Snake," "Acid Food," and "I Chose Horses," it should be clear Mogwai hasn?t taken any easy, mellowing departures on Mr. Beast. Sure, the album opens with the calming guitar atmospherics of "Auto Rock," but then "Glasgow Mega-Snake" comes bounding out with a crushing jog of a beat and a trademark granite slab of guitars. The Scots also indulge incrementally more beautiful and terrifying dreamscapes, especially the down-turned piano topping that hovers above a guitar storm on "Emergency Trap" and the layers of clear-toned melody that chime over a swirl of choked, feedback-drenched power on "Folk Death 95." There has long been talk of Scottish miserablism, and this colors and grinds the idea blissfully. --Andrew Bartlett
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