SOUNDS GOOD

Mogwai – As the Love Continues

Gorgeous soundscapes and slow-burning epics are a stock in trade for Mogwai, and their tenth record by no means reinvents that formula.

Pat Stains and Midnight Flit bear many of the classic hallmarks of the Scottish veterans, with rousing, soaring, shimmering guitars and strings doing battle on a race through space. But there’s something borrowed too – album highlight F*** Off Money is a glorious, almost balletic anthem – evoking Air and F*** Buttons played at semi-speed.

While the record begins with a razor edge it does start to blunt after a time, and later tracks Ceiling Granny and Supposedly We Were Nightmares are at risk of feeling a little post-rock by numbers