Art of the Cover - Slint's "Spiderland Box-Set" (1993)

This is giving me Spidey tingles!

Yap, 22 1/2 years later, Slint’s seminal second album Spiderland is being reissued in a new (very) expanded  Box-Set package that includes the remastered album ..... a disc of 14 outtakes and demos personal selected by Slint .... plus a brand-new 90-minute documentary about its making called “Breadcrumb Trail.” .. plus a 104-page book with over 100 never-before-seen band photos, lyrics to the songs on Spiderland.

The wonderful, sparse yet unforgettable, other-worldly, cover artwork was shot, of course, by some guy called Will Oldham. Or perhaps it was Bonnie Prince Billy!

Oldham provides the foreword to the special new 104-page book.

The Spiderland  Box-Set includes:

1) The album, remastered by Bob Weston from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180 gram vinyl. 

2) 14 previously unreleased outtakes and demos selected by the band, mastered by Bob Weston, and pressed on two 180 gram vinyl albums, 

3) A 104-page book with over 100 never-before-seen photos, lyrics to the songs on Spiderland, and a foreword by the album’s cover photographer, Will Oldham 

4) 2 CDs: remastered Spiderland on one, and the 14 bonus songs on a second CD. 

5) Breadcrumb Trail, a new, 90-minute documentary about Slint and the making of Spiderland, directed by Lance Bangs. The doc include interviews with Slint, Steve Albini, James Murphy, David Yow, Ian Mackaye and Matt Sweeney.

 

The box will be available in a hand-numbered limited edition of 3,138 copies.

The packaging concept and design is by Louisville native Jeremy deVine (founder and president of the Temporary Residence label).

Slint's 1991 album was remastered from the original analog master tapes by Bob Weston and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. 

Both CD and LP include a download coupon for 14 outtakes and demos personal selected by Slint and mastered by Bob Weston. 

The package includes Breadcrumb Trail, a brand new, never- before-seen, 90 minute DVD documentary about Slint and the making of Spiderland, directed by Lance Bangs. 

The album's beautiful black-and-white cover photograph, which depicts the Louisville lads (David Pajo, Todd Brashear, Brian McMahan, Britt Walford) treading water in the lake of an abandoned quarry, was taken byWill Oldham.

An article in The Stranger credited the cover for creating a mystique surrounding Slint, noting  ...

"most people only had seen Slint as four heads floating in a Kentucky quarry on Spiderland's cover. Listeners pondered the band's sparsely adorned black-and-white covers as if they were runes bearing secrets."

Chris Gaerig of the Michigan Daily wrote, "the cover of Slint's masterful Spiderland captures the joyous fear and violence of the album so precisely it shakes souls. The group -submerged in a lake to their chins with deranged smiles - seems to be stalking you, hovering out of the black-and-white façade."

Several other promotional images were taken from the same photo session with Oldham.

A photo of a spider taken by Noel Saltzman is used on the back cover, reflecting the album's title. The inside sleeve contains the message "interested female vocalists write 1864 douglas blvd. louisville, ky. 40205". 

McMahan confirmed that this message was serious, and said "We did get some responses and we did listen to CDs and tapes. We didn't end up doing anything immediately, so that idea of adding someone sort of fell by the wayside."

 

During its original run in the late '80s and early '90s, Slint never reached a huge audience: Its music was, by its nature, too dark and strange and sprawling. But its influence has stretched for decades, and its two full-length albums (1989's Tweez and 1991's Spiderland) are, to this day, counted as underground classics.

Featuring dramatically alternating dynamics and vocals ranging from spoken word to shouting, the album contains narrative lyrics that emphasize alienation. Spiderland was Slint's first release on Touch and Go, and the group's last.

Although Spiderland was not widely recognized on its initial release, it eventually sold more than 50,000 copies and became a landmark album in underground music after Slint broke up. 

The album has been highly influential on the styles of many bands in the post-rock and math rock genres, including Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor, and has been named a favorite of several indie rock musicians.

Tracklistings
SIDE A

breadcrumb trail (remastered)
nosferatu man (remastered)
don, aman (remastered)

SIDE B

washer (remastered)
for dinner… (remastered)
good morning, captain (remastered)

SIDE C

Nosferatu Man (basement practice)
Washer (basement practice)
Good Morning, Captain (demo)

SIDE D

Pam (rough mix, Spiderland outtake)
Glenn (Spiderland outtake)
Todd’s Song (post-Spiderland song in progress)

SIDE E

Brian’s Song (post-Spiderland demo)
Cortez The Killer (live Chicago 1989)

SIDE F

Washer (4 track vocal demo)
Nosferatu Man (4 track vocal demo)
Pam (4 track vocal demo)
Good Morning, Captain (Evanston riff tape)
Nosferatu Man (Evanston riff tape)
Pam (Evanston riff tape)

  

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Art of the Cover - Mogwai's "Les Revenants" EP (2012)

Rather nice artwork and rather nice music from the wee Scottish post-rockster francophile laddies.

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Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People (2003)

Mogwai - Songs for Happy People
Released 17 June 2003
Recorded Cava Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
Genre Post-rock
Length 41:50
Label Play It Again Sam, Matador
Producer Tony Doogan

Happy Songs for Happy People is the fourth full-length studio album by the Scottish Mogs.

This one is a further evolution of Mogwai's toned down, more electronic sound.

Many of the songs are awash in feedback and reverb, and most highlight their mysterious, somewhat insect-like, vocoder effect prominently.

Some listeners say the album has an apocalyptic sound; the music is often interpreted as conveying feelings of fear and sorrow. The exception comes with the final triumphant blast of cacophony on the last track, "Stop Coming to My House".

Although a very guitar-oriented album, with drums and bass mixed low, synths often take the main stage. Strings and piano also make a few appearances.

Mogwai's usual vocalist Stuart Braithwaite does not sing on this album at all; however, Barry Burns ("Hunted by a Freak", "Killing All the Flies") and John Cummings ("Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep") do.

Tracklisting

1. "Hunted by a Freak" – 4:18
2. "Moses? I Amn't" – 2:59
3. "Kids Will Be Skeletons" – 5:29
4. "Killing All the Flies" – 4:35
5. "Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep" – 3:05
6. "Ratts of the Capital" – 8:27
7. "Golden Porsche" – 2:49
8. "I Know You Are But What Am I?" – 5:17
9. "Stop Coming to My House" – 4:53

Here be the Mogs

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Mogwai - Young Team (1997)

Mogwai - Young Team
Released 21 October 1997
Recorded MCM Studios, Hamilton, Scotland
Genre Post-rock, instrumental rock
Length 64:31
Label Chemikal Underground, Jetset
Producer Paul Savage, Andy Miller

Mogwai Young Team was recorded in Summer 1997 at MCM Studios (now known as Chem19 Studios) in Hamilton, Scotland, and was produced by Paul Savage and Andy Miller.

The album features extreme dynamic contrast between quiet and loud, a technique which Mogwai are well known for. It is largely instrumental, with one notable exception ("R U Still in 2 It"). It features limited instrumentation, consisting mainly of guitar, bass and drums, although other instruments can sometimes be heard throughout the album, such as glockenspiel ("Tracy"), piano ("Radar Maker", "With Portfolio", "A Cheery Wave from Stranded Youngsters") and flute ("Mogwai Fear Satan").

When questioned about his opinion on Mogwai Young Team, Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite said:

“ The album was a total disaster. We were young and naïve and had too little time. We should have said; "No, the record isn't done until six months later." Instead, we sat and mixed whole nights and felt bad. We didn't talk to each other. When the album was released, we just wanted to forget everything. We were certain that all critics would pan it, honestly. After that, we understood that we had think stuff over that we recorded.”

Mogwai drummer Martin Bulloch has also given his thoughts on the album:

“ The recording of Young Team was fucked up. There were quite a lot of sketches going on. I think the whole of the first LP is angry. It was the mood of the whole thing - there was a lot of anger about.”

The LP also features a track written by the boy from the Arab Strap, Falkirk's own Aidan Moffat!

Despite the members of Mogwai's negative opinions about the album, Mogwai Young Team was listed as #97 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s, and is considered their best by many listeners, including Kele Okereke of Bloc Party, who cited Mogwai Young Team as the record that changed his life.

Tracklisting

1. "Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home" – 5:57
2. "Like Herod" – 11:41
3. "Katrien" – 5:24
4. "Radar Maker" – 1:35
5. "Tracy" – 7:19
6. "Summer" (Priority version) – 3:28
7. "With Portfolio" – 3:10
8. "R U Still in 2 It" – 7:20
9. "A Cheery Wave from Stranded Youngsters" – 2:18
10. "Mogwai Fear Satan" – 16:19

All tracks written by Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, and John Cummings, except "R U Still in 2 It?", lyrics by Aidan Moffat.

Here be the Mogs

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Mogwai - Bat Cat EP (2008)

Mogwai - Bat Cat
Release date: Sept 8, 2008
Label: Wall Of Sound

A taster for the new LP The Hawk Is Howling which will be released on September 22, 2008 ... as we've already posted.

They seem to have a song here about my mate fatfuckfrankie ... Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend !!


Tracklisting

1. Bat Cat
2. Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend
3. Devil Rides

Here be the slut GF!

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Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (2008)

Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (2008)
Genre: Post-Rock/Instrumental
Format: MP3
Quality: VBR kbps
Size: 76MB
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Released September 22, 2008
Recorded Chem19 Studios
Hamilton, Scotland
Label Wall of Sound
Producer Andy Miller

The much anticipated new release from Scottish post-rockers Mogwai.

I'm now totally fucking shocked! Yes, I've just found out Jim Morrison is dead! I need a bottle of Jack Daniels NOW!

So that really was his grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery, where I visited all those years ago! I'd partaken of a tad too much Moroccan hash that day and thought it was Morrison's house I'd been visiting and that I'd had afternoon tea with the man himself!

Anyway, The Hawk Is Howling is the Mog's sixth studio album and will be released on September 22, 2008 through Wall of Sound, Play It Again Sam, and Matador in the UK, Europe, and the USA, respectively.

The album was recorded in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire at Chem19 Studios with producer Andy Miller, whom the band had previously worked with on their early releases from 1997—1998.

Mogwai recorded the album from September 2007 to February 2008, mixing the album in March 08 with Garth Jones at the band's own Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow.

The album was recorded and produced by Andy Miller at Chem19 Studios in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and mixed by Garth Jones at Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow, Scotland between September 2007—March 2008.

The album marks the first time in ten years that the band worked with Andy Miller, and at Chem19 Studios, since recording the song "Small Children in the Background" for the No Education = No Future (Fuck the Curfew) EP in May 1998.

Several new songs were debuted at a show for the Triptych Festival at Tramway in Glasgow, Scotland on April 26, 2008—"The Precipice", "I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School", "I'm Jim Morrison - I'm Dead", "Thank You Space Expert", "Batcat" and "Scotland's Shame".

Barry Burns described the album's songs as being "dreamy ballads about forbidden love gone awry, one minute pointless instrumentals and ... spoken word about the future of the music industry in India.

Mogwai's sixth full-length CD The Hawk Is Howling contains all the extremity and dynamics you know and love, but with a more curious array of rhythms and melodies, hinting a bit more than previous records at both their electronic and metal influences. Additionally, with only two songs under the five-minute mark, this is maybe their most "cinematic"-sounding record to date (which is saying something).

-Matador

More here;

http://www.myspace.com/mogwai

http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=315

Tracklisting

1. "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead" - 6:46
2. "Batcat" - 5:23
3. "Danphe and the Brain" - 5:18
4. "Local Authority" - 4:15
5. "The Sun Smells Too Loud" - 6:58
6. "Kings Meadow" - 4:42
7. "I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School" - 7:33
8. "Scotland's Shame" - 8:00
9. "Thank You Space Expert" - 7:55
10. "The Precipice" - 6:42

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Mogwai - Mogwai: Young Team (10th Anniversary Edition) [2008]

Mogwai - Mogwai: Young Team
(10th Anniversary Edition) [2008]

(Remastered and Expanded with a second disc of rare & live tracks)


The recording of Young Team was fucked up. There were quite a lot of sketches going on. I think the whole of the first LP is angry. It was the mood of the whole thing - there was a lot of anger about.

- Martin Bulloch

Mogwai Young Team was recorded in Summer 1997 at MCM Studios (now known as Chem19 Studios) in Hamilton, Scotland, and was produced by Paul Savage and Andy Miller.

The album features extreme dynamic contrast between quiet and loud, a technique which Mogwai are well known for.

It is largely instrumental, with one notable exception ("R U Still in 2 It").

The instrumentation throughout the album consists mainly of guitar, bass and drums, although other instruments can sometimes be heard, such as glockenspiel ("Tracy"), piano ("Radar Maker", "With Portfolio", "A Cheery Wave from Stranded Youngsters") and flute ("Mogwai Fear Satan").

Mogwai Young Team was listed as #97 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s, and is considered their best by many listeners, including Kele Okereke of Bloc Party, who cited Mogwai Young Team as the record that changed his life.

Reissuing the brooding debut from legendary Scottish post-rock pioneers Mogwai may seem redundant to their obsessive collector fanbase, but there are treats within the second disc for devotees and newcomers alike.

'Mogwai Young Team' itself is considered to be one of the more influential instrumental rock albums of the 1990s, despite the fact that the band themselves have continually downplayed its acclaim.

Documenting the band at their most violent and visceral, it is a stark example of the power of dynamics with rock instruments, but shot through with moments of darkness and quiet that are chilling rather than soothing.

The second disc contains several live versions of songs from the album, as well as a rare cover of the Spacemen 3 song 'Honey'.

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Tracklisting

Disc: 1

1. Yes I Am A Long Way From Home
2. Like Herod
3. Katrien
4. Radar Maker
5. Tracy
6. Summer
7. With Portfolio
8. R U Still In 2 It
9. Cheery Wave From Stranded Youngsters
10. Mogwai Fear Satan

Disc: 2

1. Young Face Gone Wrong
2. I Don't Know What To Say
3. I Can't Remember
4. Honey
5. Katrien (live)
6. R U Still In 2 It (live)
7. Like Herod (live)
8. Summer (live)
9. Mogwai Fear Satan (live)

Here be little Scot monsters;

Disc One

YT1.rar

Disc Two
YT2.rar

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