The lords of instrumental post rock are returning. Mogwai’s new album Every Country’s Sun will arrive September 1st on Temporary Residence Ltd. They’ve shared the first single “Coolverine”. Listen to it below.
The new album marks the first recording without guitarist and original member John Cummings as well as a reuniting with producer and friend Dave Fridmann, who was instrumental in his work on early albums Come On Die Young and Rock Action. A press release describes the new work in this way:“In October 2016 they took their glimmering bounty to Dave Fridmann and his Tarbox Road Studios in Chautauqua County, New York State, surrounded by little more than woods, wild hounds and marauding deer hunters..The new album takes two decades of the band’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.”
Mogwai co-founder Stuart Braithwaite offered a view into the inspirational background of Every Country’s Sun, which formed during a time of frightening global unrest and change: “What’s going on in the world politically and socially has to affect you,” muses Braithwaite. “It was very much on our minds, especially in America. We were vaguely getting over the Scottish referendum, then the death of David Bowie, along comes Brexit, and then Trump. The album was written in a very turbulent, intense period so I think it maybe feels like some kind of shield from that? That’s maybe just my take. Because it literally was for me.”
