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Pioneering Scots
MOGWAI
have today released
their new song
“FANZINE MADE OF FLESH”
taken from their
forthcoming eleventh album
THE BAD FIRE
out January 24 via Rock Action Records
Mogwai today release their new song “Fanzine Made Of Flesh”, the latest cut to be taken from their forthcoming eleventh album, The Bad Fire, set for release on January 24 via Rock Action Records. The release follows previous singles, “God Gets You Back” and “Lion Rumpus”.
“Fanzine Made Of Flesh” is a graceful culmination of everything that makes Mogwai great. Stuart Braithwaite’s surging chord progression is paired with a vocoded vocal, whilst the work of keyboardist Barry Burns shines through, with Burns shifting between an elastic lead line and layers of arpeggiated synth.
Stuart Braithwaite, who recently visited Australia for his debut solo tour, says: “Fanzine Made of Flesh was written in Brooklyn when I was staying at Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand)’s house in autumn 2023. In my head it sounds like a cross between ABBA, swervedriver and Kraftwerk — though that might be ludicrous.
“It originally has a straight vocal but we ended up vocoding it on the last day of recording. It’s pretty different and I’m really happy with how it turned out.”
The song comes with a striking video directed by Agnes Haus, who says: “When I was sent the track, I embraced being unable to understand any of the words, and I didn’t want to know where the title came from. As I was listening, I wanted to make a video that matched that – a pseudo-film trailer with a jumbled plot that you can never grasp. You kind of have to piece it all together on your own.
“I really wanted it to seem like there could be a full-length film version with vague horror tones, emotional entanglement, and nods to weird art films from the 90s, and an autobiographical storyline about growing up non-binary, but not realising it. Perhaps one day I’ll extend it into a full film.”
Mogwai’s new album The Bad Fire was recorded in Lanarkshire, with Grammy Award-winning producer John Congleton (St Vincent, Angel Olsen, John Grant) joining the band in the studio. A Scottish colloquialism for Hell, The Bad Fire draws inspiration from a series of tough personal moments that the band found themselves in following on from their chart-topping tenth album, 2021’s As The Love Continues.
The band continued to work through this, leading to the creation of The Bad Fire: a collection of songs that forgo nostalgia and easy victories, once again finding Mogwai pushing forward with some of the most beautiful and explosive songs of their career.
Tracklist:
God Gets You Back
Hi Chaos
What Kind of Mix is This?
Fanzine Made Of Flesh
Pale Vegan Hip Pain
If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some Of The Others
18 Volcanoes
Hammer Room
Lion Rumpus
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