MOGWAI ARE BACK TO SHARE THE LOVE
New album features collaborations with Atticus Ross and Colin Stetson.
Scottish experimental rock outfit Mogwai have announced a new record, As The Love Continues, which will be released on February 19 via Rock Action Records.
The LP follows 2017’s Every Country’s Son and the band’s soundtrack for Italian TV drama ZeroZeroZero. The TV music is a pay-what-you-feel download, with half of proceeds going to Help Musicians and NHS charities. “With ZeroZeroZero there were eight episodes, so almost eight hours of music,” says guitarist Stuart Braithwaite. “It was like being on a conveyor belt. It’s pretty intense having to make up pieces of music really quickly.”
Even though As The Love Continues was written during the same period, the songs stayed distinct from the ZeroZeroZero tracks. “The way I see it is that you have to be able to not require anything else for the piece of music to work on its own,” Braithwaite says. “A song for a Mogwai album has to work as a standalone rock song.”
The new record finds the band reuniting with producer Dave Fridmann, and also sees contributions from Atticus Ross and
Colin Stetson. The first single from the album was Dry Fantasy, with an accompanying video by Vaj.Power. “It was really nice to release music because I think everybody feels really isolated at the moment,” Braithwaite says. “And especially with music, it’s such a social thing. It’s so much about human connection.
It’s nice to be able to share with people what we’ve made.”
For more details visit www.mogwai.scot. AL