Unfortunately, this expanded repertoire comes at a cost. Dave Fridmann's production is flawless, affording each instrument just the right mix of distinction and ambiguity to create an engaging, yet cohesive whole. On the positive side, it makes Rock Action a really fun album to pick apart. This more complex sound has its ups and its downs.
Here, such diverse elements as banjos, patterned static, and the Welsh (singer Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals) are incorporated, making Rock Action the most sonically dense release of Mogwai's career thus far. In the past, Mogwai have been largely guitar-driven, relying on plucked melodies coupled with soaring feedback crescendos to create their trademark sound. Perhaps the greatest difference between this record and its predecessors is the expanded range of sounds incorporated. Which is not to say that Rock Action is a carbon copy of Young Team. And while, yes, the album is, for the most part, a very deliberate, moderately paced album, it manages much like Young Team to pack a stellar amount of energy into a medium-tempo rock song.
ROCK ACTION MOGWAI RAR FULL
As of late, the music press has been falling all over itself to point out that- get this- Rock Action is not actually full of action, nor does it rock. Mogwai isn't a band of words, they're a band of action- in this case, Rock Action. So what did the boys in Mogwai do? Did they go home and whine to their mamas? Of course not. Songs that could potentially have been made great seemed to go absolutely nowhere, resulting in an album full of wasted promise- a better soundtrack to an afternoon nap than a terrifyingly beautiful explosion. Sadly, the follow-up to Young Team, 1999's Come On Die Young, replaced the aural explosions of the debut with gradual burnouts. and boom! Layered feedback, crashing cymbals, vacuum cleaner noises, claws, teeth, and wanton destruction. Such was the case with Young Team- a beautifully orchestrated melodic passage could successfully lull you into submission. I still remember the song of the Mogwai it's a simple, beautiful melody sung in freakish la-la's, yet signifies imminent destruction and face-rippage.
ROCK ACTION MOGWAI RAR MOVIE
Young Team allowed Mogwai to perfectly encapsulate the essence of their namesake- those crazy little critters from the movie Gremlins. This adventurousness is evidenced by the fact that Mogwai managed to craft a brilliant debut- 1997's Young Team- that achieved the sainted goal of balancing fragile beauty and overwhelming sonic terror. Sure, their music can be extremely serious and deeply affecting, but there's an element of adventurousness and willingness to fuck with your expectations that makes Mogwai less dire than their competitors. But it can't be denied that of all the bands making epic, apocalyptic rock music these days, Mogwai seem to be the only ones who can sit back at the end of the day and have a good laugh. While Godspeed's Efrim Menuck would spend his time trying desperately to craft cigarettes out of coconut shells, picking bugs out of his beard, and figuring out a way to fabricate cellophane in which to bury the dead, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite would be busy sabotaging the enemy camp, starting bonfires, and dancing naked under the light of the moon.Īlright, so maybe I'm exaggerating.
One of them is that, in a "Survivor"-like desert island competition between Mogwai and fellow crescendo-rockers Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mogwai would be taking home the grand prize. There are a few things in this world I'm pretty sure of.
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