Mogwai share their new video and single " Fanzine Made of Flesh" taken from the forthcoming album "The Bad Fire" released 24th January 2025.
The new video and single by Mogwai "Fanzine Made of Flesh" is the third track to be taken from their new album The Bad Fire, and was directed by Agnes Hau.
The arrival of a new Mogwai album, their eleventh, is cause for great celebration. The album’s title, The Bad Fire, is a working-class Glaswegian term for Hell.
It reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through. New to the studio was American producer John Congleton, known for his work with Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rós, John Grant and pretty much everyone in between. Congleton’s work can be heard on the album’s three singles.
The album opener “God Gets You Back” sounds like Daft Punk being hunted by My Bloody Valentine, while “Fanzine Made Of Flesh” sounds like a victory parade for a baby yeti; and “Lion Rumpus” does actually sound like a lion rumpus.
The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience.
At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground. Yet the music contains an updraft, a sense of beauty encased in the onslaught.
This holds you up, suspended and empowered, reminding you that paradise is your birthright. This is especially true of The Bad Fire. It may have been created in dark conditions, but all that is transcended by the act of four musicians working together here, now, in the moment, the only place where Mogwai exist.
The 2025 tour kicks off across Europe, on February 4 in Amsterdam, taking the band to Asia and following performances across North America. Major stops include Brooklyn, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Toronto. New dates have also been added in Glasgow and Ireland. Below is the full list of Mogwai's tour dates.
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