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Mogwai - Every Country's Sun [New Vinyl LP]

Artist: Mogwai

Title: Every Country's Sun

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

UPC: 656605329116

Release Date: 2017

Record Label: Temporary Residence

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Coolverine
2. Party in the Dark
3. Brain Sweeties

DISC 2:
1. Crossing the Road Material
2. Aka 47
3. 20 Size

DISC 3:
1. 1000 Foot Face
2. Don't Believe the Fife

DISC 4:
1. Battered at the Scramble
2. Old Poisons
3. Every Country's Sun

Vinyl LP pressing. Every Country's Sun takes two decades of Mogwai's signature, contrasting sounds - towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume - and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock, and transcendental euphoria. Produced by psych-rock luminary Dave Fridmann, it's a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle, twinkling, synth-rock spectre to a solid, blown-out, skyward-thrusting obelisk. There's percussive, dream-state electronics ("Coolverine"), church organs as chariots of existential fire ("Brain Sweeties"), tremulous, foreboding bleeping - possibly from a dying android ("aka 47"). Their most transportive album yet, it also hosts their most fully realized art-pop sing-along of their storied history, "Party In The Dark," a head-spinning disco-dream double-helix echoing New Order and The Flaming Lips, featuring Braithwaite's seldom-heard melodic vocals declaring he's "directionless and innocent, searching for another piece of mind". This is music as a keep-out chrysalis, protective audio armor through exalting organs and portentous, dissonant guitar fuzz warping at the edges, bending the world inside-out into a reality in which you'd much rather live. The last three songs ascend into explosive exorcism, closing with the colossal "Every Country's Sun," it's searching intensity whooshing towards infinity in a dazzling cosmic crescendo.