Mogwai - Rave Tapes album flac

Rave Tapes, the band's eighth album outside of their soundtrack and remix work, has been built up for its increased use of electronics, with a debt partially owed to the vintage synth scores that have held a sustained (and seemingly ever-increasing) influence over a huge swathe of underground artists. The first song to be released from the album, "Remurdered", certainly hinted that analog sounds would form a more rigorous backbone to their music than before, although they've been dabbling in this area since Rock Action in 2001. In truth, "Remurdered" is something. This is the second Mogwai album in less than a year, following their creepy 2013 soundtrack to the French TV show Les Revenants. That album is among the most introspective work they've ever recorded-no mean feat for a band so inward facing-and it's a tone they've only modestly advanced on for Rave Tapes.

There are further clues that ‘Rave Tapes’ is a key progression for these masters of ruckus. The packaging of ‘Rave Tapes’ pops with multi-dimensional graphic polygons, waveforms and all-seeing eyes. Yet, despite these day-glo headways, ‘Rave Tapes’ does not reinvent the reel-to-reel

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It’s easily the album’s most interesting song just for its willingness to court danger. Deesh also gets creepy, letting big drums keep time with a sickly analog pulse. That’s about where Rave Tapes‘ distinctiveness ends. The album finishes with a trio of songs that almost seem to directly reference other albums. Blues Hour layers Rock Action‘s whispered vocals over square melodies that don’t evolve, No Medicine for Regret is like a deboned Mr. Beast cut, and The Lord Is Out of Control, while boasting the record’s best title, is pretty much just a happier Killing All the Flies with its woody guitar and carbonated spook-vox.

Rave Tapes is decent and mildly enjoyable without really grabbing my attention at any point. Plenty of decent material, only the occasional stinker (the album really dips towards the very end) but nothing of any real note. This is the only Mogwai album I've listened to properly so perhaps I'm doing them an injustice but my impression based on one gig and one album is that they are highly talented but not the most imaginative. At their best they look to fuse heavy rock with Kraftwerk styled electronica but never in a way that sets them apart in their own right.