Mogwai - Every Country's Sun - Indie LP [ Record ]

Limited 180gm clear colored vinyl LP pressing

Every Country's Sun takes two decades of Mogwai'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.

Produced by psych-rock luminary Dave Fridmann, it's a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle, twinkling, synth-rock spectre to a solid, blown-out, 
skyward-thrusting obelisk. There's percussive, dream-state electronics (“Coolverine”), church organs as chariots of existential fire (“Brain Sweeties”), tremulous, foreboding 
bleeping – possibly from a dying android (“aka 47”).

Their most transportive album yet, it also hosts their most fully realized art-pop sing-along of their storied history, “Party In The Dark,” a head-spinning disco-dream double-helix echoing New Order and The Flaming Lips, featuring Braithwaite's seldom-heard melodic vocals declaring he's “directionless and innocent, searching for another piece of mind”. 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. The last three songs ascend into explosive 
exorcism, closing with the colossal “Every Country's Sun,” its searching intensity whooshing towards infinity in a dazzling cosmic crescendo.

TRACK LISTING
1. Coolverine (6:17)
2. Party In The Dark (4:02)
3. Brain Sweeties (4:44)
4. Crossing The Road Material (6:58)
5. aka 47 (4:16)
6. 20 Size (4:44)
7. 1000 Foot Face (4:31)
8. Don’t Believe The Fife (6:24)  
9. Battered At A Scramble (4:03)
10. Old Poisons (4:30)
11. Every Country’s Sun (5:38)