Mogwai

As Ian Curtis of Joy Division once said, "Here are the young men/The weight on their
shoulders." The Scottish band Mogwai, who are not yet old enough to rent a car in most
states, have been charged with leading a British Isles indie-rock resurgence. Come On Die
Young isn't quite all that, but it's a nifty achievement nonetheless, a balanced blend of
heavy overdrive and subtle gestures. The mostly vocal-free Mogs create their br... More >

Young Glaswegians extolled by those weary of verse-chorus-verse as "radical," "beautiful," and other things that would never occur to the rest of us, they mutate the forgettable mess of their debut into something altogether more deliberate and kempt-occasionally tuneful, invariably slow. Only on the oceanbound land mass where acid house was Beatlemania would anyone sit still for such earnest post-rock tripe. (Grade: C)