You find a new mogwai in the ordinary as “The Bad Fire”
Looking at the date of the release of their eleventh album, January 24, 2025, it seems that Mogwai knew that things would be difficult for the world after 2024. Its title, Bad fireand It is the Scottish colloquial for hell. The titles of her songs include “Hi Chaos” and “If you find this world bad, you should see some of others.” The vibrant cover art, Dave Thomas, appears to be a volcano awaiting a terrible eruption or perhaps a hole caused by an asteroid size of the city.
Mogwai has long long been in music that can be recorded for a terrible event – a song like Rock an act’S (2001) Central “You Do not know Jesus” must have music supervisors for programs such as Another of us Games. Surface signs Bad fire It indicates that Mogwai is looking to embrace this main aspect of aesthetic.
After it reveals Bad fire It avoids the mere recycling of the brood that has been the food of Mogwai since 1997 Young team. Accidents that stimulate tension in the main guitar licking of “Hi Chaos” can be comfortable on the classic LPS like Come die Young (1999) or Rock music work (2006). The increasing procedure of “if you find this world” makes it the first cousin of melodies like “I love you, I will explode your school” from 2008 Falcon is the howl.
But in every case Mogwai works from inside their home, there is an interview where they find developments for their voice. “Fanzine Made of Flesh” called “Fanzine Made of Flesh”, such as Pop-Punk since 2000, may have written Wayne fountains. “18 volcanoes” indulge to the early 1990s. Bad fire He is an unambiguous Mugway, but not also the responses playing visits.
This varied audio evidence that the first Mogawi instinct to respond to difficult times is not simply relying on the “Gulf to the upper part” strategy, which made them famous for songs like “Like Herod” and “Mogawi Ver”. Bad fire It follows the time of the personal disturbance of the members of this Scottish Quartet Committee, as a basis for the keyboard player Barry Burns, who underwent his daughter to treat cancer.
Was the names of the record and many different songs, as one may not feel the feeling that Mogawi has faced any distinctive difficulty since a previous picnic, especially since LP, 2021 With the continuation of loveIt was filmed to the top of the UK music plans in the first week of the release, and it is a profession first. However, the context Bad fire’S The training reveals the musical complexity of this group and their gradual depth in their collective artistic identity to create their artistic expression.
When the songs are in the strongest, Mogwai looks vital as it was always. At the beginning of the “God Goover You”, the synthesis creates a proactive and active air that puts the record wonderfully. “Fact Boy” closes the procedures in an elegant dreamy way that attests to the skill of musicians who know the richness of the standard of the standard rock music group without singing. Even in the moments when Mogwai operates on the automated pilot, they do on the cavernous guitar from “Pale Vegan Hip Pain”, a type of GodSpeed! The Black Emperor B-SIDE is full of connotations after rocks, and music feels integrate into the flow of the entire record.
However, effective successes Bad fire Make cases where singing rises to the top of the mixture. Stewart Pragoyette’s guitarist moved to the microphone several times. The example of this favorite critic is the “Grand Grand Prix” from 2011 The militants will never die, but you will doGad Honor of Krautrock, Motorik and all. There, liquid Braithwaite singing singing in the driving rhythm of the song mixes to the extent that it becomes one aspect of useful effects instead of the main component in the way traditional rock formation.
In contrast, Braithwaithe singing on Bad fire Attention is distracted from the most dynamic effective aspects. “God brings you back” and “Vanzin is made of body” makes it Mr. Roboto, who, in the past, empties the music drama. In “18 volcanoes”, Braithwaite sings more cleanly, but it ends up to give Shoigley’s performance, it can be said that it is a kind of impression in Kevin Shields.
However, then you hear a song like the late album “Hammer Room”, which focuses on the character of a voltage keyboard that looks like a piano -filled pian) useful rock.
The group comes on the thirtieth anniversary of Young team (2027). At an overlapping time, they built a specific disgrace not with 180 degrees but by the well -known Sonik gradual expansion. Bad fire He will not rank among the best Magawi achievements, but it provides a picture of a band that still finds the new in the ordinary. Amid many destructive fires in the world now, this art should be comfortable.
