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Mogwai putting finishing touches on new album
14 December 2000

Scottish post rock quintet Mogwai this past June became the first band signed to new UK indie label Southpaw, a subsidiary of Belgium’s Play It Again Sam (PIAS). Still associated with Matador in the US, the band are finishing up recording their new album—the not yet titled follow-up to 1999’s Come On Die Young—in upstate New York with producer Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse, The Flaming Lips). It’s due early April 2001.
A spokesperson at Matador who’s had a chance to hear some of the work in progress said “...I have a feeling this may become the most beautiful album I’ve ever heard (if not, as the band are calling it, The Most Expensive Post-Rock Album In History). Mogwai seem to be expanding their loud/soft guitarscapes into a symphonic sound based around guitar & piano but augmented with voice (yes, vocals), strings, brass, etc. and with a much more mature sense of dynamics.” | Mogwai | | discography | | sample | | top of page |

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