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Come on Die Young

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Come on Die Young

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Emerging from Scotland's eclectic pop-rock landscape, Mogwai's Come On Die Young is an unsettling daydream of an album that hovers between the austere and chaotic. Reminiscent of albums by such forward-thinking iconoclasts as Sonic Youth and the little-known American band Slint in its slow, dry rhythms and song-to-song flow, Mogwai's is more resourceful than either band's efforts, hurling unusual samples against shifty song structures and layers of brooding guitar wash. Inventive touches * actual vocals, such as when the jabberings of a play-by-play announcer suddenly take on the quality of dark metaphors in "Helps Both Ways" and long instrumental passages inspire a restless imagery that lyrics never could reach. Yet for all its darker qualities, Come On Die Young is more determined and serious than sinister, employing a ferocity that transcends mere menace and trading impenetrable gloom for a certain shadowy bliss. --Matthew Cooke
Product details
Release Date:
1999-04-06
Publication Date:
1999-04-06
Publisher:
Matador Records
Languages:
Original: English
Weight:
113 g
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