Credit: Mogwai / Photo by Steve Gullick.
Glaswegian six piece Mogwai play shows in Wellington and Auckland this weekend.
They set the template for the loud-quiet-loud instrumental band, though Mogwai shun the term ‘post-rock’, and what vocals they do use are most often muted. Keyboard player Barry Burns says of Mogwai's approach to lyrics:
"It's just random sentences that sound nice through a vocoder. They're different every night, and no one can tell.
'Cept that one time in Australia when the vocals were sent through the mix dry and I was snapped out having a go at the front row".
The band have evolved their sound and instrumentation over the years, as their latest album Rave Tapes attests. It’s filled with pulsing, oscillating synths, under Barry Burns' hands. He seems to have soaked up some of the kraut-rock sounds of his new home of Berlin.
Mogwai were last in New Zealand 16 years ago, in 1999. Barry Burns and guitarist/vocalist Stuart Braithwaite tell Kirsten Johnstone about their recollection of that show.
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