Let’s talk about Mogwai

Had a thread on them a long time ago that’s archived and then sort of discussed in the thread about how old do you have to be for concerts, but this has been my favorite band for damned near 20 years and I’m finally going to get to see them for the first time with my son Saturday so I’m super excitedMogwai and wanted to start a dedicated thread


Discovered them on p2p (I think Stanley Kubrick was the first song I heard) and I was hooked. At the time I was maybe 15 and thought all rock songs had to have vocals and be limited to a certain length. Heard Mogwai and discovered there can be beautiful and melodic rock music that’s all instrumental and the songs can be long and expansive and take you on all kind of journeys. I was hooked

Some of my favorites:


Helicon 1

Mogwai Fear Satan

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Small Children in the Background

2 Rights Make 1 Wrong

Tracy

Superheroes of BMX

Rage Man

Cody


As a whole I think Happy Songs For Happy People is my favorite. It’s perfect from start to finish, no part of it I don’t like. Very cinematic too, it was when Mogwai started morphing into really a soundtrack band. 2nd favorite would be EP+2, it’s the first one I heard starting with Stanley Kubrick and I fell in love at the age of 15 with the dark melodic rock while I sat in beds with my headphones on drawing.


Question: have any of you heard them since John Cummings left? How do they sound with only 4 members?