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Come on Die Young
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Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Moody, bombastic, brooding, loping, thunderous, austere, chaotic: heap on the adjectives as the young boys in Mogwai worm their way through a mostly instrumental set of guitar-heavy songscapes tinted with obscure samples and an occasional mumbled voice. Mogwai can transcend the distance between a loopy and delicate melody and a deafening and crashing crescendo in the space of a breath. Come On Die Young is a stunning, utterly original achievement. --Tod Nelson
Amazon.com
Emerging from Scotland's eclectic pop-rock landscape, Mogwai's Come On Die Young is an unsettling daydream of an album that hovers between the austere and chaotic. Reminiscent of albums by such forward-thinking iconoclasts as Sonic Youth and the little-known American band Slint in its slow, dry rhythms and song-to-song flow, Mogwai's is more resourceful than either band's efforts, hurling unusual samples against shifty song structures and layers of brooding guitar wash. Inventive touches replace... read more
Album Description
1999 & second album from the Scottish instrumental gro up who use dynamics and melody to mesmerize the listener. 12 tracks, including 'Punk Rock/ Puff Daddy/ AntiChrist'.