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Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die,
But You Will
After the career consolidating live album Special Moves, Scottish band Mogwai return with Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. With this their seventh studio album they continue with the trend of cool album titles and albums filled with their muscular brand of post-rock musings for theirs is a musical world where standard song construction has no real place.
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They can build a song like album opener White Noise to almost indescribable heights while never completely resolving the theme, leaving the listener to finish the song on their own. Where with a track like Rano Pano they layer things with ever expanding waves of incredibly distorted guitars and end up with a delicious density.
Elsewhere with tracks like Death Rays or San Pedro they create a melody so universal that it just invades the gray matter and never dissipates. There are moments of almost quiet reflection like the acoustic piano driven Letters To The Metro or the sly Too Raging To Cheers and even a track with vocals (Mexican Grand Prix) and vocal sound bites (You’re Lionel Richie).
This may be a mostly instrumental album especially accessible to all the six string fanatics out there but with Mogwai no matter how out there a tone and presence they create they never forget to hang all this guitar overload on a melody that gives the songs a warm accessibility. Few bands combine those ingredients so effectively.
Rob Hudson
www.mogwai.co.uk
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