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Mogwai
- Record Label: Temporary Residence
- Release Date: Aug 31, 2018
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- Summary: The latest soundtrack score for the Scottish post-rock band is for Jonathan and Josh Baker's sci-fi crime drama film.
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- Record Label: Temporary Residence
- Genre(s): Soundtracks, Stage & Screen
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Aug 24, 2018With its songs that loom like smoldering towers and enveloping hazes of electronic programming, KIN, the band’s score for Jonathan and Josh Baker’s apocalyptic pursuit film of the same name, splits the difference between the average late-period Mogwai record and its previous film work, and when it dodges the temptation toward the histrionic.
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Q MagazineAug 28, 2018This is a starkly beautiful suite of music by a band who--after two decades--just keeping growing in stature. [Oct 2018, p.115]
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Aug 30, 2018KIN is the uncommon soundtrack that doesn’t require any context other than its own to command more than passive attention.
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Aug 29, 2018By the high standards of Mogwai’s soundtrack work--and therefore their work in general--it’s a bit tread watery. But it’s still bloody Mogwai, a band never less than magical.
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Aug 31, 2018Mogwai have come a long way since ‘Angels vs. Aliens’ in 1996. Gone are the walls of raging guitar and searing feedback. In its place is understated quiet and contemplation. This underpins KIN and really adds a grandiose dollop cinematic majesty.
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Sep 5, 2018However well they reflect KIN’s mood and themes, these pieces don’t quite cohere into a proper stand-alone album. Independent of the film, they feel more like a series of impressionistic sketches that tease at the eruptions of Mogwai’s definitive work, yet stop short of hitting their maximalist potential.
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UncutAug 24, 2018As a whole it feel overfamiliar, with little of the cohesiveness that made, say, Les Revenants so powerful. [Oct 2018, p.30]
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