EVERYONE’S favourite post rockers, Mogwai, will be playing Manchester on February 26.
Admittedly, you can’t sing along to songs without lyrics, but there is still something weirdly uplifting about the Scottish five-piece’s instrumental doodling.
Picking up the shoegazing rulebook with their 1997 instrumental debut, the Glaswegians have gone on to redefine a scene, unsatisfactorily tagged as post-rock, with interwoven layers of twinkling keyboards, elongated single chords, apocalyptic eardrum-rupturing distortion and fuzzed-out white noise.
Their new album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, was released on Monday, although the percentage of people receiving it as a Valentine’s Day present was probably disappointingly low.
* Mogwai play Manchester Academy on Saturday, February 26. Tickets cost £20, and are available from manchesteracademy.net, or by ringing 0161 832 1111.
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