Typical of their black-as-black sense of humour, the title of Mogwai’s eleventh LP, a Scottish colloquialism for Hell, is a reference to a series of tough personal moments that the band experienced following on from their chart-bothering tenth album, As the Love Continues. And so as you’d expect, rather than wallow in their run of bad luck, the quartet instead stick two fingers up to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with a sonic masterclass in ecstatic, punch-the-fucking-air post-rock. One gets the feeling that if Stuart Braithwaite and co got their hands on the archer responsible for aforementioned projectiles, he’d get a good kicking round the back of the pub.
Tour dates 2025:
04 Feb - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
06 Feb - Hamburg, Germany - Große Freiheit 36
07 Feb - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
08 Feb - Stockholm, Sweden - FÃ¥llan
09 Feb - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
11 Feb - Berlin, Germany - Admiralspalast
12 Feb - Leipzig, Germany - Taubchenthal
14 Feb - Maastricht, Netherlands - Muziekgieterij
15 Feb - Groningen, Netherlands - De Oosterpoort
17 Feb - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
18 Feb - Antwerp, Belgium - De Roma
19 Feb - Paris, France - Casino De Paris
20 Feb - London, England - O2 Academy Brixton
22 Feb - Leeds, England - O2 Academy
Pickup available at Dreamhouse Records London
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