Mogwai – Mr Beast [Pias/Playground - 2006]

I remember how Mogwai’s “Come on and die young” totally blew me away several years ago, and how the following records just was getting better and better, but then something happened. They got stuck in their own sound.

On Mr Beast Mogwai sounds the same as they did Seven years ago but now without that touch of lingering magic. They are still doing the same song over and over again. You know what note they will hit next. It’s like the time stands still in Mogwais world.

Mr Beast sure has some shining moments with songs like: “Friend of the Night”, “Emergency Trap” & “Team Handed” where they reveal a little glimpse of what made them what they are today. But it sure feels like they have made one or twenty two crescendos too much at this time when it all comes down to drowning the trembling melody with a wet wall of distorted guitars.

It’s sad, but Mogwai has grown old and are by far outplayed by other bands in the genre they among with others once invented.

Listen to: “Folk Death 95” from Mr Beast.