This collection of BBC recorded live sessions mixes both the sacred and the profane phases of Mogwai's career, as it were, providing a context with which a wayward fan like myself can reassess their feelings about the group's present catalogue. The purity of their sound became slightly tainted, even if songs like "Hunted By a Freak" essentially push the same buttons. It just seems, muffled or vocoded as they were, that the right guitar sound could've filled those melodies just fine. Not that the addition of vocals were bad for Mogwai. As it happened, the group added vocals more and more prominently for each release, while classy imitators Explosions in the Sky kept the purity of their initial process with just enough touches to keep the sound vital.
It was like the most memorable, stoic drama soundtracks you'd heard given the full guitars, bass and drums treatment.
There was no gimmick, and their quiet-loud-quiet-even louder exercises in brooding melody demanded little of the listener.
They were so refreshingly down-to-earth in their approach to making music. You either fell adrift to the sounds they were making or you moved along. The mystique of the rock band became tempered with something more like earnest explorations of and meditations on mood.Īnd Mogwai were received well, but they weren't necessarily hyped. The song titles seemed arbitrary, the band-names even more so. And what I liked about Young Team, and instrumental rock in general, was how unassuming it was. I recalled that I got into them around the same time I'd begun gravitating to instrumental rock. I was this close to adding Mogwai to the thread as an example, but then I remembered something. I mean, somebody put The Beatles on it! Calling something overrated is snobby, but we do it all the time. But as I consulted my own post and those that followed, I began to realize something - any band could be on there. A lot of bands sprung to mind and I gleefully took part. On a forum online, somebody decided to start a thread on overrated music.
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