Mogwai’s ‘vaguely upbeat’ return after difficult years | Global News Avenue

In an interview with the four MOGWAIs of Glasgow, a word continued to appear, and the word was “weird”.

With the continuation of “Love”, their previous album unexpectedly gained the first album in 2021, which was “spiritual weird.”

The lead singer Stuart Braithwaite said that the fact that this achievement happened during the period of great popularity was “even weird”, so we couldn’t even go to the bar to talk about how weird this was. “

Successfully brought them all the way to the Mercury Award Gala (“such a strange ceremony”), but they did not let it affect their new album “Bad Black”.

In fact, they completely forgot to mention chart achievements to the new producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, killer, blonde girl, humble mouse).

He only found that French reporters put forward this in an interview.

“He is like, ‘wait, do your last album rank first?’ We are like,” Yes. ”

“He is like, ‘wow, that is Weird‘. “

Fairly, he is right.

Mogwai is not a band that seems destined to rule globally.

Composed of long -term friends, they want to create “serious guitar music”. The quadruple specially studied long -term, fascinating instruments, full of anxiety and devastating returns.

Their first place spent 25 years. When calculating the ranking, the value of higher physical records than the current physical records would help.

MOGWAI-a cult band with a fan base, awarded ethylene-found scales that are beneficial to them. In a glorious week, they exceeded DUA LIPA and Harry Styles.

“This is a huge surprise,” Bracehwaite reiterated.

“We want our music to do it as much as possible, but we are not ambitious. We are not like the queen and we plan for world rule.”

However, even if the band tends to use their success, destiny is to oppose them.

When they are about to record subsequent operations, the keyboardist Barry Burns receives the news of each parent’s fear: his daughter may die.

The doctor diagnosed her sexual anemia, also known as bone marrow failure, and the human body stopped producing sufficient blood cells.

He recalled: “She has flowed blood and bruises from her gums.” “This is great pressure.”

This situation is extremely rare. Only 30 to 40 children are diagnosed in the UK each year, but Bernus has first -hand experience in its severity.

He said: “It is strange that my neighbor was suffering from it when I was a kid. Sadly, she died.”

“Obviously, I am really panicked because I think I know the result-but fortunately, the treatment is completely different now.”

After the bone marrow transplantation and chemotherapy, his daughter recovered.

“She will be fine, but I have been two years.”

This is not the only trauma when the band creates a record.

Since his career, Mick Griffiths, a live agent who worked with them, has died of cancer, and Bestist Dominic Aitchison has lost his father.

Even the pet dog dog, Prince, the pet dog, has a turbulent problem. He recalled: “He had cancer, and he had to amputate two weeks before we started recording.”

Properly, the title of the album “Bad Black” is the Glas Veig language of hell. However, anyone who expects sadness or mortality estimation is disappointing.

“If something happened in my life, the last thing I want to do is to write a song,” Bracehwaite told the Pioneer in 2003Keep a real spirit today.

To a large extent, they were instruments, and their songs deliberately opened their explanations. The band is named after the nonsense titles and jokes (you are Lionel Richie, Secret Pint, Simon fierce) to avoid the significance of collection.

This new album continues this tradition and has a faint song, such as pale hip pain and fanaticism for the meat system (although Lion Rumpus may be the most self -described in band records).

When the lyrics appear, they are opaque and impressed. The only hint of the turbulence experienced by Mogwai is the dirty singing in Braithwaite quietly, twisted 18 volcanoes: “Hope it has passed for a day/to keep me close in all aspects.“

He said: “Some reporters from France said that this album was indeed vent, and I can see this.” “But I don’t think it of its Maodlin at all.

“According to our standards, this is very vaguely optimistic.”

“Bad Fire” released last Friday is on the top five in the British album, which is the fierce competition of Central Cee and Teddy Swim.

Similarly, physical sales will make bad fires fight against streaming, and the situation of Braithwaite is very happy.

He said: “The streaming world is very vague and difficult to understand.”

“This does make a lot of money, but it earns a lot of money for artists of old music and popular back directory. I think this really makes many large labels unwilling to invest in new music.”

He added that Spotify’s selected broadcast list is full of “fake bands to make common music”, especially in Chill-OUT, Lo-Fi and Halifation.

This is a allegations against streaming media services, which is called “absolutely unreal.” But Braithwaite is suspicious.

“You definitely know that if someone wants to make universal AI music, it will be streaming media services, just to make them not need to pay.”

However, for MOGWAI, streaming media are not completely bad. On YouTube, their Crepuscular 2005 album Track has been played 85 million times.

The video is not even formal. Uploaded from the fan, showing this with a girl’s head in a rising goldfish bowl.

It was originally drawn by video game designer Ken Wong. The disconnection and alienation halo of this photo has become synonymous with Mogwai’s songs, so that some fans have turned it into tattoos.

“I almost want to go, ‘partner, you know, that’s not the cover of the record,” Braithwaite said with a smile. “But it’s cool.

“The comments in the video are an endless message board. These message boards are a young child who encounters difficulties. It is difficult to be in each other.

“This is one thing I like the digital world. Music has other lives.”

For Braithwaite, he read many William Blake poems during his recording of “Bad Fire”, and the prospect of art far exceeded the creator.

He said: “I am a bit obsessed with the eternal concept of culture.”

“The idea of ​​William Blake laughed from the society, but hundreds of years later, his paintings were projected on the dome of the St. Paul Cathedral, and Jerusalem was a non -formal British national anthem. This is really incredible.

“I like this idea, when we have left some tag ideas for a long time.”

With Mogwai celebrating their 30th anniversary, the concept has extra resonance this year. They have been walking for a long time, starting from Gobby Young’s nobles, they sell the respectful firm who sells T -shirts hanging from competitors to the British rock industry.

So how does it feel at this stage? Did they think of the first Tuesday of Glastonbury in the front room of their parents’ home (the first Tuesday after Glastonbury)?

“Well, I thought we had a flight car so far,” Breeswater said with a smile. “Therefore, any joy that I still live in a livelihood as a musician may be suppressed by lack of jet packaging.”

In other words, this is strange.