Review: Mogwai - Mogwai

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Culling autumnal chill from the verdant highlands of their native Scotland, Mogwai weaved epic instrumental strains through bruising guitar gauntlets on debut Young Team. Come On Die Young, the Glasgow band's second album proper, proved a different kind of brooding beast. Its simmering peaks seethed often into soothing horizons of fragile beauty. Post-rock seems a paltry classification for such a dynamic sound (although usually they're lumped into the genre). Music with this much movement veers closer to classical compositions than pop.

Already a record into their career (plus several singles and a compilation of material, Ten Rapid), Mogwai had begun to...