om their inception in 1995 – to recording their tenth studio album – Scottish band Mogwai have remained true to their roots. Known for their intense and euphoric live performances, the band have transcended cult status. This is their story.
2 LP Mogwai’s groundbreaking debut album ‘Young Team’, originally released in October 1997 is to be reissued in February 2023, remastered and refreshed on coloured vinyl, CD and digital. Housed in a gatefold sleeve with original artwork, the sky-blue vinyl will come with a digital download code. The original recording engineer for the album, Paul […]
Twenty years on from its original release, Craig Armstrong’s ‘As If To Nothing’ – his electronic/orchestral masterpiece featuring musical heavyweights Bono, Mogwai, Evan Dando, King Crimson and others – is being reissued for the first time on vinyl in a super-deluxe, super-limited edition run via Hydrogen Dukebox. Remastered at Abbey Road Studios and cut at […]
2 LP 1 God Gets You Back 2 Hi Chaos 3 What Kind Of Mix Is This? 4 Fanzine Made Of Flesh 1 Pale Vegan Hip Pain 2 If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some Of The Others 3 18 Volcanoes 1 Hammer Room 2 Lion Rumpus 3 Fact Boy Mogwai’s “The […]
“Underachievers Please Try Harder” is the album on which Stuart Murdoch continued showing his support for the band with the cover photo; the album produced by Geoff Allan (Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, The Delgados, Arab Strap And Belle & Sebastian); the album that quickly surpassed 100,000 copies sold, a number that causes a bit of vertigo […]
Furthermore, Billy Mahonie now have their own label, Whistling Sam Projects, an almost sold-out London launch show at The Lexington on May 4th, and they are confirmed to play Portals Festival Saturday May 25th in East London. After nearly quarter of a century, Billy Mahonie are very much back. Formed in the first wave of […]
Sales notes: While the world became socially distanced in 2020, Hull’s post-shoegaze, dream pop, heavy guitar effects quartet bdrmm made the kind of impact with their debut album any young band would dream about. Bedroom was hailed as “a heady, forward-thinking shoe gaze distillation” by Clash magazine, the Guardian proclaimed “one of the underground hits […]
Sales notes: Following their critically-acclaimed UK Top 20 album “As Days Get Dark”, Arab Strap return with their 2nd long player for Mogwai’s Rock Action Records with the excellent titled “I’m totally fine with it ??don’t give a fuck anymore ??”. Almost 28 years after their debut, Arab Strap have never sounded more essential, and […]
3 LP Following this year’s hugely successful UK No. 1 album ‘As The Love Continues’, entering the US Billboard Chart at No. 9, Mogwai went on to be nominated for this year’s Mercury Music Prize. Now they reissue their 90’s EPs on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years through Chemikal Underground. Each […]
Kathryn Joseph announces her fourth album, ‘WE WERE MADE PREY.’, released on Rock Action Records. Continuing her creative partnership with 2022’s ‘for youwho are the wronged’ producer Lomond Campbell,recording took place in the remote Black Bay Studios onthe Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. ‘WE WERE MADE PREY.’ dances on the knife-edge: […]
