Scottish Post-Rock quartet Mogwai published the official video for the track “Lion Rumpus” taken from upcoming new album “The Bad Fire” due out on January 24, 2025 via Temporary Residence Ltd. Watch the video through the YouTube player below:
The arrival of a new Mogwai album – their eleventh – is cause for great celebration. The album’s title, The Bad Fire, is a working-class Glaswegian term for Hell. It reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through. New to the studio was American producer John Congleton, known for his work with Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rós, John Grant and pretty much everyone in between. Congleton’s work can be heard on the album’s three singles. The album opener “God Gets You Back” sounds like Daft Punk being hunted by My Bloody Valentine, while “Fanzine Made Of Flesh” sounds like a victory parade for a baby yeti; and “Lion Rumpus” does actually sound like a lion rumpus. The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience. At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground. Yet the music contains an updraft, a sense of beauty encased in the onslaught. This holds you up, suspended and empowered, reminding you that paradise is your birthright. This is especially true of The Bad Fire. It may have been created in dark conditions, but all that is transcended by the act of four musicians working together here, now, in the moment – the only place where Mogwai exist.
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Tracklist:
01. God Gets You Back
02. Hi Chaos
03. What Kind Of Mix Is This?
04. Fanzine Made Of Flesh
05. Pale Vegan Hip Pain
06. If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some Of The Others
07. 18 Volcanoes
08. Hammer Room
09. Lion Rumpus
10. Fact Boy
Tour Dates:
Feb 4 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Feb 6 – Hamburg, DE @ Große Freiheit 36
Feb 7 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
Feb 8 – Stockholm, SE @ Fållan
Feb 9 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
Feb 11 – Berlin, DE @ Admiralspalast
Feb 12 – Leipzig, DE @ Taubchenthal
Feb 14 – Maastricht, NL @ Muziekgieterij
Feb 15 – Groningen, NL @ De Oosterpoort
Feb 17 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
Feb 18 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
Feb 19 – Paris, FR @ Casino De Paris
Feb 20 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
Feb 22 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
Feb 23 – Edinburgh, SC @ Usher Hall
Mar 8 – Bangkok, TH @ Voice Space
Mar 11 – Osaka, JP @ Gorilla Hall
Mar 12 – Tokyo, JP @ Zepp Shinjuku
Mar 14 – Taipei, TW @ Zepp New Taipei
Apr 7 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Apr 8 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts
Apr 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Apr 11 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Apr 13 – Montreal, QC @ Beanfield Theatre
Apr 14 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
Apr 16 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall
Apr 17 – Chicago, IL @ The Metro
Apr 18 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theatre
Apr 20 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Apr 22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Commonwealth Room
Apr 24 – Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore Ballroom
Apr 25 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Apr 26 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
Apr 28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
Apr 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether
Apr 30 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren
May 3 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
May 4 – Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge
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