Mogwai plays Atomic

Sat. Jan 21, 2017 at 8:00pm MST
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Mogwai plays Atomic

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MOGWAI plays Atomic


http://www.mogwai.co.uk


 


MOGWAI to play their new album Atomic in North America for the first time!


"It may be bloodcurdling, but it's also beautiful." NPR


"Ambitious and masterful, another peak in Mogwai's career." - AllMusic


"...some of the best work in the band's two decades of existence." - Noisey 


Atomic, the new album by Scottish experimental rock legends Mogwai, is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousins' acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer.


Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times - protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima - but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. Mogwai's soundtrack encapsulates the nightmare of the nuclear age, but its dreamlike qualities too. It is the latest in the band's series of impressive soundtracks and scores, following acclaimed albums Les Revenants (The Returned) and Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.


Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite says: "The Atomic soundtrack is one of the most intense and fulfilling projects we've taken on as a band. Ever since we went to Hiroshima to play and visited the peace park this has been a subject very close to us. The end results, both the film score and the record are pieces I'm extremely proud of."

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