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Mr Beast Press Release

 

Mr Beast Press Release

On March 6th  2006, Mogwai release their 5th studio album "Mr Beast", the follow-up to 2003's "Happy Songs For Happy People", on CD, vinyl and a special limited edition CD of the album will include a DVD with a documentary - "The Recording Of Mr Beast"

The US release date is March 7th 2006.

 

 

"MR BEAST" LP (PIAS Recordings)
CD (PIASX062CD) Ltd. Edition CD/DVD (PIASX062CDLTD)  LP (PIASX062DLP)

MOGWAI RELEASE NEW STUDIO ALBUM ON 6TH MARCH '06

 


Since their formation in 1995, Mogwai have become one of the UK's most respected and vital bands. While many others have come and gone, Mogwai have operated under the mainstream radar, happy in their outsiders status. Their unwavering self-belief and ever evolving sound has accompanied their rise from humble beginnings in Glasgow to world-wide notoriety as one of the greatest guitar bands of our time.

In March 2006, Mogwai will release their 5th studio album "Mr Beast", the follow-up to 2003's"Happy Songs For Happy People".  It was recorded in the band's new Castle of Doom studio in Glasgow between April and October 2005 with producer Tony  Doogan.  As the title suggests, this is a record of considerable size and weight - a monster creation that started out as a return to the heady, bone-crushing volume and intensity of earlier recordings, and then mutated into a many headed, many mooded beast. Here we find the ominous death-toll of opener "Auto Rock" followed by the head-crushing army of guitars that is "Glasgow Mega-Snake", alongside the contrasting neo-classical piano passages of single "Friend Of The Night" and the beautiful melancholy of "I Chose Horses" which features Tetsuya Fukagawa of Japanese hardcore band Envy on vocals and a keyboard contribution from composer/arranger Craig Armstrong.

Since the release of 'Happy Songs...', Mogwai have toured the States on the Curiosa tour, at the request of Robert Smith, played All Tomorrow's Parties at the request of Slint and played dates in Japan and China. In January '05 they released a compilation of BBC live recordings spanning 1996-2003 from John Peel and Steve Lamacq sessions. Mogwai continue to spin a fine line in remixes and have more recently reworked tracks by Boom Bip, Bloc Party, Earth, Engineers and Kid 606.

A special limited edition CD of the album will include a DVD with a documentary - "The Recording Of Mr Beast"

Mogwai are: 

Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, Barry Burns, John Cummings