Mogwai

Mogwai continue to play with wave after wave of blissful noise and harrowing explosive elements. Live, this makes them one of the loudest bands on the planet. On record, they're a more unique beast. Their rich, dense music unfolds majestically, offering fans layers of remarkable sound through which to sift.

Glasgow's Mogwai, like Low, their nearest discernible psychic cousins, perpetually mine
one beautifully bummed-out vein and dig deeper into it with each album. They have a
sense of humor, but you'd only know it from the song titles (e.g., "Kids Will Be Skeletons"
and "Hunted by a Freak"); they fill the sarcastically named Happy Songs, with lovely wintry
keyboard washes, guitars that slowly wax into rage, and an ambience of thick-bl... More >