Mogwai’s “As The Love Continues” is released today!!!!
Today, we’re honoured to finally unveil Mogwai’s tenth studio album ‘As The Love Continues’, out now through Spunk Records.
Following singles ‘Dry Fantasy’ and ‘Ritchie Sacramento’, the band today share the full 11 track release, which CLASH reviews as “Mogwai at their best”.
Mogwai have enjoyed hefty radio support from across Australia in the lead up to this release. The band are Double J’s Artist In Residence for February, and have programmed curated playlists for the station, ranging from Space Music to Punk Favourites and beyond.
‘As The Love Continues’ is Album of the Week on RTR FM, and has enjoyed features and interviews with PBS FM, Double J and 3RRR.
As The Love Continues’ was originally planned to be recorded in America, but the pandemic led to a relocation to Worcestershire and with producer Dave Fridmann separated by an ocean and appearing like an Orwellian oppressor. This pandemic necessity was quickly routine, it also bought them a little more time.
Unable to perform the album for the time being, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite hopes the music can take you from somewhere different to where you are, “unless you are somewhere really amazing and then why are you listening to some weird music like this?”
Mogwai have advanced without a plan since they were teenagers, there have been no secretive meetings to work out the master plan. It is rare to hear a band that has been going for this long, and have this many albums behind them – ten records in and still no disappointments or mistaken creative left turns.
You may know what to expect, but you will never get the same. Both transcendent and surprising, ‘As The Love Continues’ shows that Mogwai are still offering solace from the mundane, supplying the soundtrack to whatever movie you are making in your head.
‘As The Love Continues’ is out now, digitally and on Australian exclusive double white vinyl and CD, through Spunk Records.