As I sat down for dinner with my wife this week I mentioned that I’d been given the new album to review. We talked a bit about the time we saw them play whilst we lived in Texas and how the ’ drummer, James Hamilton, played with Mogwai that time. She asked what the album was like and I said it was actually a Best Of – and she asked me how I was going to review it. After a few seconds, I conceded that I actually didn’t know how I was going to review it. The new album – expertly titled Central Belters as with most Mogwai albums and tracks – is a career spanning retrospective on three discs or six LPs, and is the culmination of a yearlong 20th birthday celebration the band have undertaken, which started last year with the special edition release of Come On Die Young, the band’s second album, and featured a raft of gigs across the world with various friends and bands.

You couldn’t say that this victory lap isn’t deserved either – the group have managed over their twenty years to stay relevant in a genre that has waxed and waned with various other groups appearing and disappearing. The post-rock peak feels like it was around ten years ago, with the dissolution of Godspeed giving way to a catalogue of other bands, like Explosions in the Sky, whose TV and film soundtracking material was competent for the most part and in rare places excellent. Mogwai’s career during this time, with the release of Mr. Beast, put them right at the top of the BBC music advisor’s playlist ever since. But they’ve plugged on through the rise, peak and fall of “their” genre. I reviewed their most recent EP for this very website and stated that Rave Tapes, their most recent album, was a success on almost every level – and a commercial one too as the PR release reminds us, being the group’s first top ten album.

It’s this consistency that makes Mogwai so powerful and so revered in the first instance, having released eight albums, many more EPs, and a raft of other releases, and still being able to at least make something that has a message and is interesting. The question therefore remains – as a reviewer, how do I approach this album?

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Do I look at the tracks selected as an introduction to the band, lament the tracks left off and critique the decisions made, or take it as a release on its own? This choice is made a lot harder by the fact that I probably don’t need to listen to 90% of the album seeing as I know the material inside-out, but that’d miss the point of the album. So I’ve decided to do all of the above – don’t ever accuse me of not sitting on the fence. Central Belters takes the chronological approach to the Best Of formula with a few tracks misplaced for flow reasons, I assume – imagine putting Mogwai Fear Satan in its chronological place, in the middle of the first disc, rather than at its logical place at the end. This is admirable actually, and makes the Best Of feel like a journey though the band’s eras.

The music found here is mostly soft, ambient and atmospheric rock. Mogwai seems very experimental, but in a casual, laid-back way. They're defanately not trying to show off. This is my first CD by Mogwai, so I cannot compare to older albums. A common complaint is that it is quite short, only 38 minutes, but it doesn't need. Country: USA. Auctioned at: ebay. MOGWAI Rock Action LP VINYL RARE OOP MINT. Mogwai - 'Rock Action' out of print vinyl LP. The cover and the and the vinyl are in mint condition. It's a rare find being the original. Very good record. Home Contact Us Bookmark and Share Copyright © 2004-2017 Popsike.com. Find mogwai and nick cave from a vast selection of Records. Tamil Serial Title Songs Lyrics. Get great deals on eBay!

It’s the selection and weighting of the tracks on here that is worth talking about as it might say something about the band’s regard for their own catalogue. The first two discs are the Best Of really, with the third disc being a selection of rare tracks from here and there that I’ll get to shortly. This makes sense – a few years ago I had a go at a Mogwai Best Of (for the record, I called mine Scotland’s Shame) and it too ended up on three “discs”. What is questionable however is the fact that, of the albums represented here in the 24 tracks selected, 14 of them come from the band’s most recent years; four tracks from Mr Beast and three each from The Hawk is Howling and Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will. Even the 2015 EP Music Industry 3, Fitness Industry 1 is represented here by Teenage Exorcists, whilst the band’s early period career is only approximated in the first disc’s ten tracks, with only Mogwai Fear Satan from Mogwai Young Team being selected. I don’t want to seem like I am complaining about the band’s most recent work though, and the choices from those albums are ones I made on my own selection for the most part.