68-705: Mogwai ( / ˈ m ɒ ɡ w aɪ / ) are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow . The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums). Mogwai typically compose lengthy guitar-based instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast , melodic bass guitar lines, and heavy use of distortion and effects . The band were for several years signed to Glasgow label Chemikal Underground , and have been distributed by different labels such as Matador in
136-606: A "post-rock noisefest". Post-rock incorporates stylings and traits from a variety of musical genres and scenes, including krautrock , ambient , psychedelia , prog rock , space rock , math rock , tape music and other experimental recording techniques , minimalist classical , British IDM , jazz (both avant-garde and cool ), and dub, as well as post-punk , free jazz , contemporary classical , and avant-garde electronica . It can also bear similarities to drone music , and usage of drones in psychedelic rock . Early post-rock groups often exhibited strong influence from
204-605: A (limited edition) spirits brand of rum. In July 2022 Mogwai released the soundtrack for the Apple TV+ series Black Bird . Early on in Mogwai's history, their music drew on Sonic Youth , Joy Division , and My Bloody Valentine . Over the following years, the band would incorporate elements from a wide range of bands and artists, including the God Machine , Rodan , Low , Neu! , Philip Glass , MC5 , Fugazi , Aphex Twin ,
272-515: A backdrop of the screening of the film, beginning in Austria on 1 May 2016. They then announced a North American tour of the album for January 2017. The band also co-wrote the score to Fisher Stevens ' 2016 documentary film about climate change Before the Flood . The score was performed and written by Mogwai, Trent Reznor , Atticus Ross , and Gustavo Santaolalla . In 2016 Braithwaite took part in
340-700: A companion piece to the album. Mogwai's 2003 album Happy Songs for Happy People continued the band's movement into the use of electronica and more spacious arrangements. It was the band's first album to sell in any numbers in the US, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Independent Albums Chart and even spending one week in the Billboard 200 . Reviews were generally favourable, although as Pitchfork Media said in 2008 "...(the album's) reception ranged from middling to favorable. Some praised
408-633: A documentary about Glasgow music, and Chemikal Underground Records , called Lost in France . The film was directed by Niall McCann and brought Braithwaite (along with members of The Delgados , Franz Ferdinand and others) to Mauron , Brittany, to recreate a gig they played just after Mogwai had formed. The film features Mogwai live, as well as footage of Braithwaite playing Mogwai tracks solo and interviews with Braithwaite and his old label-mates such as Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand), Emma Pollock (The Delgados) and Stewart Henderson (The Delgados). It premiered at
476-624: A few shows with the band, as a flautist and as an occasional pianist. According to Stuart, Barry was invited into the band because he was a "good laugh". The album reached No. 29 in the UK. The band line up remained unchanged from 1998 until November 2015, when John Cummings left to pursue other projects. Fellow Scottish musician Luke Sutherland has contributed violin (and more recently vocals and guitar) to Mogwai's records and live performances. The band's 2001 album Rock Action gave them their then-highest UK album chart placing, reaching No. 23. The album
544-411: A melancholy and crescendo -driven style rooted in, among other genres, chamber music , musique concrète techniques and free jazz influences. In 2000, Radiohead released the studio album Kid A , marking a significant turning point in their musical style, with Reynolds describing it and the 2001 follow-up album Amnesiac as major examples of post-rock in the style that had been established by
612-512: A multi-instrumentalist (including guitar, bass guitar, banjo and drums), he is best known for his guitar work, most notably with Slint . He is currently a member of Gang of Four and musician at large. A native of Louisville, Kentucky , Pajo played with three Louisville hardcore and hardcore-inflected bands in his early career. The first band in which he played was called Obscene Routine , after which he performed as guitarist in Maurice , but it
680-401: A number of albums that were regarded as post-rock, most notably To Be Kind , which was acclaimed by AllMusic at the end of 2014. David Pajo David Pajo (born June 25, 1968 ) is an American musician. He has played a wide variety of music, loosely fitting into several other genres such as hardcore punk , math rock , post-rock , electronica , folk rock and indie pop . Though
748-587: A reunion tour, and in April released his first solo album not bearing a pseudonym, simply entitled Pajo . The follow-up to Pajo , entitled 1968 , was released in August 2006. In mid-2005, he helped to form the band Dead Child , with Todd Cook (from Shipping News , Retsin , The For Carnation, and Aerial M—and who also played guitar on the 2005 Slint reunion tour), Michael McMahan (from The For Carnation, Starkiller, and Phantom Family Halo —and who also joined Slint on
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884-442: A tour member. He left the tour early on February 27, 2011. On February 12, 2015, Pajo attempted suicide after posting a lengthy suicide note on his personal blog. He survived this attempt after EMS members were able to rescue him. On May 1, 2020, it was revealed that David Pajo was a member of a recording project/band called Household Gods that also consisted of Vern Rumsey of Unwound , Conan Neutron of Conan Neutron &
952-487: Is almost an anagram of "Hardcore Will Never Die" was again released by Sub Pop in the US, and Rock Action Records elsewhere. In July 2013, Mogwai performed their soundtrack to Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait for the first time at dates across the UK. An announcement of new live dates followed, including two nights at the Royal Festival Hall , and an appearance closing the final holiday camp edition of
1020-441: Is based, in part, on the band's music being largely lyric-free. Braithwaite has commented on the absence of lyrics in most of Mogwai's music, saying: I think most people are not used to having no lyrics to focus on. Lyrics are a real comfort to some people. I guess they like to sing along and when they can't do that with us they can get a bit upset. Post-rock Post-rock is a subgenre of experimental rock characterized by
1088-522: Is often seen on the label of Neurot Recordings . Similarly, bands such as Altar of Plagues , Lantlôs and Agalloch blend between post-rock and black metal , incorporating elements of the former while primarily using the latter. In some cases, this sort of experimentation and blending has gone beyond the fusion of post-rock with a single genre, as in the case of post-metal, in favor of an even wider embrace of disparate musical influences as it can be heard in bands like Deafheaven . A precedent to post-rock
1156-463: Is the late 1960s U.S. group The Velvet Underground and their " dronology "—"a term that loosely describes fifty percent of today's post rock activity". A 2004 article from Stylus Magazine also noted that David Bowie 's 1977 album Low would have been considered post-rock if released twenty years later. British group Public Image Ltd (PiL) were also pioneers, described by the NME as "arguably
1224-581: The "All Tomorrow's Parties" festival in Camber Sands, England. They announced their eighth studio album Rave Tapes on 28 October 2013. The album was released on 20 January 2014 on Rock Action in the UK, Spunk in Australia and Hostess in Japan and South-east Asia, while Sub Pop released the album in the US on 21 January. Rave Tapes was produced by Mogwai and Paul Savage, and the song "Remurdered"
1292-553: The Edinburgh International Film Festival to positive reviews and was called "Funny, vital and sobering" by Scotland's arts magazine The Skinny . In August 2018 Mogwai released the soundtrack for the movie Kin , and in May 2020 the soundtrack for the 2020 Sky Italia & Amazon Prime series ZeroZeroZero . As an extra Mogwai released in 2014 their own whisky brand, a year later they tried out
1360-628: The Kranky label like Labradford , Bowery Electric , and Stars of the Lid , are often cited as foundational to the American first wave of post-rock, especially in the Chicago scene. The second Tortoise album, Millions Now Living Will Never Die , made the band a post-rock icon, with bands such as Do Make Say Think beginning to record music inspired by the "Tortoise-sound". In the late 1990s, Chicago
1428-531: The UK Albums Chart , and featured a guest appearance from Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap . In 1998 the band had their first singles chart success with a split single with Magoo of Black Sabbath cover versions reaching No. 60 in the UK and an EP of "Fear Satan" remixes reaching No. 57. In the same year, an album of remixes of the band's tracks by the likes of Kevin Shields , Alec Empire , and μ-ziq
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#17327800641301496-412: The indie and underground music scenes of the 1980s and 1990s, but as it abandoned rock conventions, it began to show less musical resemblance to conventional indie rock at the time. The first wave of post-rock derives inspiration from diverse sources including ambient , electronica , jazz , krautrock , psychedelia , dub , and minimalist classical , with these influences also being pivotal for
1564-454: The "strictness" of the band's avant-garde approach, and their musical characteristics of uncertainty and unevenness. Originally used to describe the electronica -tinged rock-adjacent indie music of English bands such as Stereolab , Laika , Disco Inferno , Moonshake , Seefeel , Bark Psychosis , and Pram , many of which began in post-punk and shoegaze roots, post-rock grew to denote further elaborations on this style. Bands from
1632-488: The 2000s due to the use of many of their tracks, particularly their 2005 single " Hoppípolla ", in TV soundtracks and film trailers. These bands' popularity was attributed to a move towards a more conventional rock oriented sound with simpler song structures and increasing utilization of pop hooks, also being regarded as a new atmospheric style of indie rock. Following a 13-year hiatus, experimental rock band Swans began releasing
1700-600: The Beatles , writer Christopher Porterfield hails the band and producer George Martin 's creative use of the recording studio, declaring that this is "leading an evolution in which the best of current post-rock sounds are becoming something that pop music has never been before an art form." Another pre-1994 example of the term in use can be found in an April 1992 review of 1990s noise-pop band The Earthmen by Steven Walker in Melbourne music publication Juke , where he describes
1768-553: The Orb , and post-rock pioneers Slint . Braithwaite also listed Nirvana , Kraftwerk , and guitarist John McGeoch as personal influences. Mogwai's style has easily identifiable connections to genres such as shoegaze , math rock , and art rock . Debut album Mogwai Young Team was described as "stunningly dynamic...[shifting] seamlessly from tranquil, bleakly beautiful soundscapes to brain scrambling white noise and sledgehammer riffing". Douglas Wolk , writing for SPIN in 1999 said of
1836-496: The Senile Man (Part One) (1979) as "a door opening on multi-faceted post-rock music," citing its drawing on avant-garde, noise and jazz. This Heat are regarded as having predated the genre, while also being credited as an influence on bands in the first wave of post-rock. Their music has been compared directly to Slint , Swans and Stereolab . Stump were referred to as "a significant precursor to post-rock" due to
1904-472: The UK Albums Chart on 26 February 2021. The lead single, "Dry Fantasy", was premiered on BBC Radio 6 and made available for download the same day. On 13 February, the weekend before the album's release on 19 February, the band streamed a show recorded at Glasgow Tramway where they played the album in full. Following a social media campaign asking various celebrities to promote it, the album entered
1972-676: The UK chart at No. 1 in its first week of release, a position that the band called "totally surreal". As the Love Continues was nominated for the Mercury Prize , which honours the best of British music, in 2021. The album won the 2021 Scottish Album of the Year Award . On 29 October 2024, the band announced their eleventh studio album, The Bad Fire , would be released on 24 January 2025. Two songs, "God Gets You Back", and "Lion Rumpus", have been shared so far. A film about
2040-538: The US and Play It Again Sam in the UK, but now use their own label Rock Action Records in the UK, and Temporary Residence Ltd. in North America. Mogwai's tenth album, As the Love Continues , reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart on 26 February 2021. Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison met in April 1991, and four years later formed Mogwai with old schoolfriend Martin Bulloch . The band's name comes from
2108-492: The associated scene of artists. The term has since developed to refer to bands oriented around dramatic and suspense-driven instrumental rock , making the term controversial among listeners and artists alike. The concept of "post-rock" was initially developed by critic Simon Reynolds , who used the term in his review of Bark Psychosis' album Hex , published in the March 1994 issue of Mojo magazine. Reynolds expanded upon
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2176-489: The band announced the new album would be named Every Country's Sun and would be released on 1 September 2017. They also shared the first song "Coolverine". On 2 June, Mogwai played a show at Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, only announced on the day, which consisted of Every Country's Sun played in full. On 29 October 2020, Mogwai announced a new album, As the Love Continues , which went on to reach No. 1 in
2244-648: The band had started recording the album with him. On 3 March 2017, the band announced that they had completed recording and were mastering the album at Abbey Road Studios . The band have announced a worldwide tour to coincide with the release of the new album, starting with dates in Europe in October before visiting North America in November, and finally playing in their home city of Glasgow in December. On 14 May 2017,
2312-805: The band released their first live film ( Burning , filmed by Vincent Moon and Nathanaël Le Scouarnec, which premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival in February) and live album (called Special Moves ). Burning contains eight tracks from the band's Brooklyn shows during their 2008/2009 American tour, whilst Special Moves adds nine more tracks from the same source. Special Moves was the first release on Mogwai's own Rock Action records, named after Stooges drummer Scott Asheton , who had his name changed to Rock Action. In September 2010, Mogwai left longtime North American distributor Matador Records, and signed with Sub Pop . Braithwaite also stated that
2380-418: The band were working on material for a new album for release in early 2011. On 27 October 2010, Mogwai announced their seventh studio album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will . The album was released on 14 February 2011 in the UK and entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 25. A bonus edition featured an additional CD featuring a 23-minute piece called "Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)", which
2448-469: The band's scope, grandeur, and willingness to explore beyond the bounds of the quiet-loud-louder dynamic it had mastered; others lamented a lack of the same, alternately calling Happy Songs too soft, too small, or too stiff." In March 2006, the album Mr Beast was released in a regular format and in a limited deluxe edition package that came with both the album on CD and a DVD documenting the recording process entitled The Recording of Mr Beast . The album
2516-536: The band, If the Stars Had a Sound , was released in the UK and Ireland on 19 November 2024. In 2006, the band provided the soundtrack to the film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait , with the soundtrack album released the following year. The band's songs "Auto Rock" and "We're No Here" were used in Michael Mann's 2006 film Miami Vice . The band also collaborated with Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet on
2584-462: The band: "Their compositions have gotten increasingly drawn-out and austere over time, sometimes barely more than a single arpeggiated chord or two evolving for ten minutes or more, whisperingly brutal in a way that recalls Slint more than any other band". Barry Burns once stated in an interview that he and the rest of the band do not like the categorisation of post-rock because he believes it over-analyses everything. Their strong international fanbase
2652-477: The early 1990s such as Slint or, earlier, Talk Talk , were later recognized as influential on post-rock. Despite the fact that the two bands are very different from one another, with Talk Talk emerging from art rock and new wave and Slint emerging from post-hardcore , they both have had a driving influence on the way post-rock progressed throughout the 1990s. Groups such as Tortoise, Cul de Sac , and Gastr del Sol , as well as more ambient-oriented bands from
2720-455: The exploration of textures and timbres as well as non- rock styles, often with minimal or no vocals , placing less emphasis on conventional song structures or riffs than on atmosphere for musically evocative purposes. Post-rock artists can often combine rock instrumentation and rock stylings with electronics and digital production as a means of enabling the exploration of textures, timbres and different styles. The genre emerged within
2788-437: The first post-rock group". Their second album Metal Box (1979) almost completely abandoned traditional rock and roll structures in favor of dense, repetitive dub and krautrock inspired soundscapes and John Lydon 's cryptic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. The year before Metal Box was released, PiL bassist Jah Wobble declared that "rock is obsolete". Dean McFarlane of AllMusic describes Alternative TV 's Vibing Up
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2856-406: The first wave of post-rock. Post-rock pieces can be lengthy and instrumental, containing repetitive build-ups of timbres , dynamics and textures. Vocals are often omitted from post-rock; however, this does not necessarily mean they are absent entirely. When vocals are included, the use is typically non-traditional: some post-rock bands employ vocals as purely instrumental efforts and incidental to
2924-401: The first wave. In the early 2000s, the term became divisive with both music critics and musicians, with it being seen as falling out of favor. It became increasingly controversial as more critics outwardly condemned its use. Some of the bands for whom the term was most frequently assigned, including Cul de Sac, Tortoise, and Mogwai, rejected the label. The wide range of styles covered by
2992-481: The idea later in the May 1994 issue of The Wire . Referring to the artists Seefeel , Disco Inferno , Techno Animal , Robert Hampson , and Insides , Reynolds used the term to describe music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures rather than riffs and power chords ". He further expounded on the term that [p]erhaps the really provocative area for future development lies [...] in cyborg rock; not
3060-424: The krautrock of the 1970s, particularly borrowing elements of the " motorik ", the characteristic krautrock rhythm. Post-rock compositions can often make use of repetition of musical motifs and subtle changes with an extremely wide range of dynamics. In some respects, this is similar to the music of Steve Reich , Philip Glass and Brian Eno , pioneers of minimalism who were acknowledged influences on bands in
3128-446: The music and acts as another instrument." Often, in lieu of typical rock structures like the verse-chorus form , post-rock groups make greater use of soundscapes. Simon Reynolds states in his essay "Post-Rock" from Audio Culture that "A band's journey through rock to post-rock usually involves a trajectory from narrative lyrics to stream-of-consciousness to voice-as-texture to purely instrumental music". Reynolds' conclusion defines
3196-513: The name of the creatures in the feature film Gremlins , although guitarist Stuart Braithwaite comments that "it has no significant meaning and we always intended on getting a better one, but like a lot of other things we never got round to it." The word mogwai means "evil spirit" or "devil" in Cantonese . The band debuted in February 1996 with the "Tuner"/"Lower" single and by the end of
3264-643: The reunion tour), and Tony Bailey (from Anomoanon , The Party Girls , Verktum , Lords, and Aerial M). In 2009, Pajo joined the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the tour for their third album, It's Blitz! He was confirmed to perform as Papa M at the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York in September 2010. In June 2010 it was announced that he would be joining the band Interpol as
3332-549: The sound, rather than a more traditional use where "clean", easily interpretable vocals are important for poetic and lyrical meaning. When present, post-rock vocals are often soft or droning and are typically infrequent or present in irregular intervals, and have abstract or impersonal lyrics. Sigur Rós , a band known for their distinctive vocals, fabricated a language they called "Hopelandic" ("Vonlenska" in Icelandic), which they described as "a form of gibberish vocals that fits to
3400-630: The soundtrack to The Fountain in 2006. Mogwai are also featured in the 2009 post-rock documentary Introspective . The band donated an exclusive track to the PEACE project in April 2010 in support of Amnesty International . In 2012, the band provided the soundtrack for the Canal+ French TV series Les Revenants (broadcast as The Returned in the UK). The album, Les Revenants , was released on 25 February 2013. The track "Kids Will Be Skeletons"
3468-651: The sporadic progression from rock, with its field of sound and lyrics to post-rock, where samples are manipulated, stretched and looped. Wider experimentation and blending of other genres have taken hold in the post-rock scene. Cult of Luna , Isis , Russian Circles , Palms , Deftones , and Pelican fused metal with post-rock styles, with the resulting sound being termed post-metal . More recently, sludge metal has grown and evolved to include (and in some cases fuse completely with) some elements of post-rock. This second wave of sludge metal has been pioneered by bands such as Giant Squid and Battle of Mice . This new sound
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#17327800641303536-419: The substyle of ambient pop . Artists such as Talk Talk and Slint were credited with producing foundational works in the style in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The term "post-rock" was notably employed by journalist Simon Reynolds in a review of Bark Psychosis ' 1994 album Hex . With the release of Tortoise 's 1996 album Millions Now Living Will Never Die , post-rock became an accepted term for
3604-480: The term include its employment in a 1975 article by American journalist James Wolcott about musician Todd Rundgren , although with a different meaning. It was also used in the Rolling Stone Album Guide to name a style roughly corresponding to " avant-rock " or "out-rock". The earliest use of the term cited by Reynolds dates back as far as September 1967. In a Time cover story feature on
3672-562: The term not to be of his own coinage, writing in his blog "I discovered many years later it had been floating around for over a decade." In 2021, Reynolds reflected on the evolution of the style, saying that the term had developed in meaning during the 21st century, no longer referring to "left-field UK guitar groups engaged in a gradual process of abandoning songs [and exploring] texture, effects processing, and space," but instead coming to signify "epic and dramatic instrumental rock, not nearly as post- as it likes to think it is." Earlier uses of
3740-473: The term, they and others have claimed, robbed it of its individuality. As part of the second wave of post-rock, Explosions in the Sky , 65daysofstatic , This Will Destroy You , Do Make Say Think, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Mono became some of the more popular post-rock bands of the new millennium. Sigur Rós, with the release of Ágætis byrjun in 1999, became among the most well known post-rock bands of
3808-454: The wholehearted embrace of Techno 's methodology, but some kind of interface between real time, hands-on playing and the use of digital effects and enhancement. Reynolds, in a July 2005 entry in his blog, said that he had used the concept of "post-rock" before using it in Mojo , previously referring to it in a feature on Insides for music newspaper Melody Maker . He also said he later found
3876-402: The year they received 'single of the week' from NME for "Summer", a feat repeated early in 1997 with "New Paths to Helicon". After playing a few shows the band expanded with the introduction of John Cummings on guitar, and then Teenage Fanclub drummer Brendan O'Hare joined while they recorded their debut album Mogwai Young Team . The album, released in October 1997, reached No. 75 on
3944-443: Was described by Creation Records head Alan McGee as "probably the best art rock album I've been involved with since Loveless . In fact, it's possibly better than Loveless " – referring to the influential 1991 album by My Bloody Valentine . AllMusic called the album "Possibly the most accessible yet sophisticated album Mogwai (have) released". The band's sixth studio album was recorded from late 2007 until early 2008, and
4012-451: Was featured as part of the soundtrack of the story based video game Life Is Strange . In 2015 the band supplied the music for Mark Cousins ' documentary Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise . The soundtrack was reworked and released as Atomic on 1 April 2016, through Rock Action Records. The band carried out an extensive live tour of Europe and Japan performing the soundtrack against
4080-416: Was issued ( Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed ). The band also remixed tracks for David Holmes and Manic Street Preachers . O'Hare was sacked after the release of the album (reportedly after upsetting the rest of the band by talking all through a performance by Arab Strap ). Barry Burns was brought in prior to the recording of Come On Die Young , the band's second album. He had already played
4148-408: Was less guitar-led than previously, featuring more electronics; a larger than usual number of tracks also featured vocals, and guest vocalists included David Pajo of Slint , Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals and Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol . Shortly afterwards the band released " My Father My King ", a cacophonous 20-minute song which closed their Rock Action -period shows, and was billed as
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#17327800641304216-468: Was recorded for an art installation by Douglas Gordon and Olaf Nicolai. Three singles were released from the album; "Rano Pano", "Mexican Grand Prix" and "San Pedro". In 2012 a remix album, A Wrenched Virile Lore was released which included tracks from Hardcore... remixed by numerous artists including Xander Harris , The Soft Moon , Robert Hampson and Justin Broadrick . The album, whose title
4284-733: Was recorded in Glasgow with Paul Savage . In June 2015 Mogwai played a series of high-profile shows in the UK and Ireland, climaxing with two nights at the Camden Roundhouse , to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary. At the same time, in association with ATP , they curated a series of shows at the London venue featuring acts that have "challenged, intrigued and inspired" them, including The Jesus and Mary Chain , Public Enemy , and Godspeed You! Black Emperor . A career retrospective album comprising three CDs or six LPs, Central Belters ,
4352-537: Was released in September 2008. It was the first Mogwai album not to feature vocals, and was also the first to be self-produced by the band; the album was recorded by Andy Miller at Chem19 Studios in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire , and mixed by Gareth Jones at Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow. The album spawned an EP, Batcat , featuring the title track from the album and also a collaboration with Roky Erickson , with Erickson providing vocals on "Devil Rides". In 2010
4420-465: Was released on 23 October. On 15 November 2015, the band announced that guitarist John Cummings had left to pursue his own projects. In April 2016, Braithwaite told the Guardian that the band were writing new songs and would be travelling to the US later in the year to record a new album with Dave Fridmann , who produced Rock Action some 15 years previously. On 25 November, Fridmann announced that
4488-513: Was the home of a variety of post-rock associated performers. John McEntire of Tortoise and Jim O'Rourke of Brise-Glace , both of Gastr Del Sol, were important for many of these groups, with them both also producing multiple albums by Stereolab in the 1990s and 2000s. One of the most eminent post-rock locales is Montreal, where Godspeed You! Black Emperor and related groups, including Silver Mt. Zion and Fly Pan Am , recorded on Constellation Records ; these groups are generally characterized by
4556-635: Was uploaded to the Rock Action and Sub Pop SoundCloud pages at the time of the announcement. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 10 and, as of April 2014, was the best selling UK album released in 2014 in terms of vinyl sales. An EP titled Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. on Rock Action was released on 1 December 2014 featuring three new tracks from the Rave Tapes sessions, along with three remixes of tracks from that album by Blanck Mass , Pye Corner Audio and Nils Frahm . The EP
4624-456: Was with Solution Unknown that he made his first recording. He rose to prominence, however, for his work with the influential post-rock band Slint . Since the breakup of Slint, Pajo has contributed to many line-ups, playing and recording with Will Oldham , The For Carnation , Tortoise , Stereolab , Royal Trux , King Kong , Bush League , Zwan , Peggy Honeywell , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , and Interpol . He has also performed and released music as
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