Sold Date: September 23, 2023
Start Date: December 30, 2022
Final Price: €50.99 (EUR)
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Limited editoin box set including the album on double LP and CD plus a six track demo LP, digital download code and set of Tarbox Road photographic prints. One copy per customer.

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,” its searching intensity whooshing towards infinity in a dazzling cosmic crescendo.

Trackliste

A1 Coolverine
A2 Party In The Dark
A3 Brain Sweeties
B1 Crossing The Road Material
B2 Aka 47
B3 Size
C1 1000 Foot Face
C2 Don't Believe The Fife
D1 Battered At A Scramble
D2 Old Poisons
D3 Every Country's Sun
E1 20 Size
E2 1000 Foot Face
E3 Don't Believe The Fife
F1 Battered At A Scramble
F2 Old Poisons
F3 Every Country's Sun
G1 Coolverine
G2 Party In The Dark
G3 Brain Sweeties
G4 Crossing The Road Material
G5 Aka 47
G6 Size
G7 1000 Foot Face
G8 Don't Believe The Fife
G9 Battered At A Scramble
G10 Old Poisons
G11 Every Country's Sun