Mogwai
The Bad Fire
Rock Action Records
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2025
2LP
31.99
ROCKACT166 / Includes Download Code
Gatefold sleeve, etched side D
Pre-Order: Available on / around Jan 24th 2025
2LP (clear)
31.99
ROCKACT166-CL / Includes Download Code
Gatefold sleeve, etched side D
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3LP+CD (green)
51.99
ROCKACT166-X
Gatefold sleeve, etched side D, booklet
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The arrival of a new Mogwai album – their eleventh – is cause for great celebration. The album’s title 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.

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.