Mogwai Unveil Cover Art & Give Away Free Track (Album ”Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” Out Feb. 15 via Sub Pop

Mogwai Unveil Cover Art & New Track For

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

 (Out February 15, 2011 via Sub Pop)

Pitchfork Premieres FREE MP3
 

Of “Rano Pano” Off The Album

Download There Or From Mogwai.co.uk

Mogwai is set to push the boundaries of where art meets rock even further into the abyss with the announcement that their new album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will will be released on February 15^th, 2011 on Sub Pop Records in North America and the band’s very own label, Rock Action Records in the UK. The band is now  giving away “Rano Pano” from the upcoming album and it will be released as a 7” single on January 18 via Sub Pop, with the non-album track “Hasenheide” as the B-side.
 
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, the band’s seventh album, was recorded over the summer at Chem 19 Studios, in Hamilton and mixed at The Castle Of Doom. Hardcore… is produced by Mogwai confidante Paul Savage (the man behind Mogwai’s exceptional 1997 Mogwai Young Team album).“We hadn’t recorded with Paul since Mogwai Young Team (in 1997). Not for any particular reason but I think in the years since, both us and Paul have grown quite a bit and it seemed timely to work with him again. We’re massive fans of work he’s done with The Twilight Sad and Phantom Band.”
 
“San Pedro” is the furious sequel to “Glasgow Mega-Snake” from 2006’s Mr Beast, a driving, dueling guitar battle where the band hurtle through to thundering climax. “Letters to the Metro” is yet more quintessential Mogwai, sweetly melodic and oddly sentimental, where plaintive piano pokes and brushed drums set against loping, mournful guitar twangs: A thing of beauty.
 
Elsewhere, the twitchy, mechanized ghosts of Suicide and Neu! are evoked on songs like “Mexican Grand Prix” and “George Square Thatcher Death Party.” Mogwai have always excelled at the hypnotic but show an even greater range of textures here. “How to Be a Werewolf” is similarly textured, rolling, gliding and building before exploding forth with streaks of molten, stereoscopic guitar.
 
Closing track “You’re Lionel Ritchie” is a brooding monster that not only sends off into the night sated, but solidifies the veteran ceiling-dwelling soulster’s place in popular cultural history—as a footnote to Mogwai’s continued forward progress. “I saw Lionel Richie at Heathrow but I was still drunk from DJing in Barcelona,” Braithwaite admits. “That is what I said to his face. The rest of the band was incredibly amused.”
 
 
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will tracklisting:

White Noise

Mexican Grand Prix

Rano Pano

Death Rays

San Pedro

Letters To The Metro

George Square Thatcher Death Party

How To Be A Werewolf

Too Raging To Cheers

You’re Lionel Richie
 

 
Mogwai are: Dominic Aitchison, Stuart Braithwaite, Martin Bulloch, Barry Burns and John Cummings.
 
 
There will also be a Limited Edition version of the album, which includes a bonus CD featuring a 26 minute long piece called ‘The Singing Mountain’ recorded for Douglas Gordon and Olaf Nicolai’s ‘Monument for Forgotten Future’ installation in Essen, Germany. The band will be bringing their awesome live show across the globe, kicking off their world tour with a 5 show stint in their native Scotland before heading out to Japan, Ireland, UK, Europe and US with one off shows in Tokyo, Japan on February 2^nd 2011 with more details to follow. Pre sale tickets for the bands US tour are available via mogwai.co.uk.
For more information on Mogwai please visit: http://www.subpop.com/artists/mogwai

 

US DATES
 TOUR DATES
Apr 19: 9.30 Club, Washington DC

Apr 20: Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia

Apr 21: Webster Hall, New York

Apr 22: Webster Hall, New York

Apr 23: Paradise Rock Club, Boston

Apr 25: Olympia Theater, Montreal

Apr 26: Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

Apr 27: Mr. Smalls Theatre, Pittsburgh

Apr 28: St. Andrews Hall, Detroit

Apr 29: Metro, Chicago

Apr 30: Slowdown, Omaha

May 2: Bluebird Theater, Denver

May 3: In The Venue, Salt Lake City

May 5: Wonder Ballroom, Portland

May 6: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver

May 7: Showbox at the Market, Seattle

May 9: Regency Ballroom, San Francisco

May 10: Mayan Theater, Los Angeles

May 11: Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach

May 13: Sunshine Theatre, Albuquerque

May 15: Granada Theatre, Dallas

May 16: Stubbs Waller Creek, Austin

May 17: Warehouse Live, Houston

May 19: Workplay Theater, Birmingham

May 20: Center Stage, Atlanta