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Aug 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Mogwai

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Mogwai are releasing a new album, Every Country’s Sun, on September 1 via Temporary Residence Inc. Previously they had shared the album’s first single, and opening track, “Coolverine,” as well as a cool black & white slow motion video for the song chronicling a telekinetic event, and its second single, “Party in the Dark” (one of the band’s more accessible songs). Now “Party in the Dark” has a video. Craig Murray directed the clip, which was inspired by 1980s sci-fi and horror movies. As a press release describes it: “The practical effects film was created using silicone moulded sculptures, which were cast in wax and then melted. The video was filmed over 10 days a combination of stop motion, regular and time-lapse filming.” Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Every Country’s Sun is the first Mogwai album without John Cummings, who left in late 2015. The lineup is now Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (keyboards, computer, guitar), Dominic Aitchison (bass), and Martin Bulloch (drums). A previous press release described the album as such: “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.”

Braithwaite had this to say about the album in a previous press release: “What’s going on in the world politically and socially has to affect you. 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.”

Read our 2014 interview with Stuart Braithwaite on Mogwai’s Rave Tapes album, as well as our recent retrospective article on the band’s 2001 album Rock Action.

Mogwai U.S. Tour Dates:
August 19 - Hostess Club All-Nighter, Chiba
September 8 - Festival No.6, Portmeirion
October 10 - Rockefeller, Oslo
October 11 - Nobelberget, Stockholm
October 12 - KB, Malmo
October 13 - Vega, Copenhagen
October 14 - Columbiahalle, Berlin
October 16 - Docks, Hamburg
October 17 - E-Werk, Koeln
October 18 - Aeronef, Lille
October 20 - AB Main Hall, Brussels
October 21 - AB Main Hall, Brussels
October 22 - Tivoli Vredenburg Ronda, Utrecht
October 23 - Grand Rex, Paris
October 25 - Riviera, Madrid
October 26 - Reithalle @ Kaserne Basel, Basel
October 27 - Fabrique, Milan
October 28 - Atlantico, Rome
October 29 - Estragon, Bologna
October 31 - Roxy, Prague
November 1 - Arena, Vienna
November 2 - Täubchenthal, Leipzig
November 3 - Backstage, Munich
November 18/19 - Corona Capital Fest, Mexico
November 20 - Observatory N. Park, San Diego
November 21 - Belasco Theater, Los Angeles
November 22 - Regency Ballroom, San Francisco
November 23 - Roseland Theater, Portland
November 24 - The Showbox, Seattle
November 25 - Commodore Ballroom. Vancouver
November 28 - Ogden Theatre, Denver
November 30 - The Waiting Room, Omaha
December 1 - First Avenue, Minneapolis
December 2 - House of Blues, Chicago
December 3 - Majestic Theatre, Detroit
December 5 - Danforth Music Hall, Toronto
December 6 - Corona Theatre, Montreal
December 7 - Royale Nightclub, Boston
December 8 - Terminal 5, New York
December 9 - Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia
December 10 - 9:30 Club, Washington
December 15 - O2 Academy Brixton, London
December 16 - The SSE Hydro, Glasgow

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