Mogwai - The Bad Fire (2025) [Official Digital Download]

The arrival of a new Mogwai album – their eleventh – is cause for great celebration. The album’s title, The Bad Fire, is a working-class Glaswegian term for Hell. It reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through. New to the studio was American producer John Congleton, known for his work with Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rós, John Grant and pretty much everyone in between. Congleton’s work can be heard on the album’s three singles. The album opener “God Gets You Back” sounds like Daft Punk being hunted by My Bloody Valentine, while “Fanzine Made Of Flesh” sounds like a victory parade for a baby yeti; and “Lion Rumpus” does actually sound like a lion rumpus. The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience. At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground. Yet the music contains an updraft, a sense of beauty encased in the onslaught. This holds you up, suspended and empowered, reminding you that paradise is your birthright. This is especially true of The Bad Fire.

TRACKLIST

01. Mogwai - God Gets You Back
02. Mogwai - Hi Chaos
03. Mogwai - What Kind Of Mix Is This?
04. Mogwai - Fanzine Made Of Flesh
05. Mogwai - Pale Vegan Hip Pain
06. Mogwai - If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some Of The Others
07. Mogwai - 18 Volcanoes
08. Mogwai - Hammer Room
09. Mogwai - Lion Rumpus
10. Mogwai - Fact Boy



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