Rejoice and be glad: Mogwai have just announced a new album.
Rave Tapes is slated for release on January 20 2014. It’s their first full-length album since 2011’s Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, though they’ve been busy in the meantime, most notably producing the soundtrack to the French zombie TV series Les Revenants, as well as putting out the Earth Division EP later in 2011, assembling the Hardcore… remix album A Wrenched Virile Lore and performing their Zidane soundtrack live for the first time.
The new LP was recorded at the band’s Castle Of Doom studio in their native Glasgow with producer Paul Savage and it seems like band member Stuart Braithwaite made good on his word from the last time we spoke to him: "we’ve probably got about thirty songs. I’m hoping there’s only going to be ten at the end – I don’t want any of this double-CD nonsense!". And now they’ve dealed out one of the album’s ten tracks (the tracklisting’s at the bottom of the page) – get hold of ‘Remurdered’ below:
The band will also be playing a huge run of shows following the album’s release, but before then there’s a one-off Cambridge date ahead of their headline set at the final ATP holiday camp festival. Have a look at the dates below and head to their website for tickets:
NOVEMBER
Thu 28 – The Junction, Cambridge
DECEMBER
Sun 1 – All Tomorrow’s Parties, Camber Sands
JANUARY
Wed 22 – Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
Fri 24 – Royal Festival Hall, London – SOLD OUT
Sat 25 – Royal Festival Hall, London
Mon 27 – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tue 28 – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Thu 30 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
FEBRUARY
Sat 1 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium – SOLD OUT
Sun 2 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Mon 3 – Olympia, Paris, France
Tue 4 – Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany
Wed 5 – Backstage-Werk, Munich, Germany
Thu 6 – Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
MARCH
Sun 23 – Konserthuset, Gothenburg, Sweden
Mon 24 – Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden
Tue 25 – Koncertsalen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Wed 26 – Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany
Thu 27 – Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Sat 29 – Paloma, Nîmes, France
Sun 30 – Estragon, Bologna, Italy
Mon 31 – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
APRIL
Tue 1 – Substage, Karlsruhe, Germany
Wed 2 – E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
Thu 3 – Aeronef, Lille, France
TRACKLISTING:
- ‘Heard About You Last Night’
- ‘Simon Ferocious’
- ‘Remurdered’
- ‘Hexon Bogon’
- ‘Repelish’
- ‘Master Card’
- ‘Deesh’
- ‘Blues Hour’
- ‘No Medicine For Regret’
- ‘The Lord Is Out Of Control’
