introduced to through my friend Mike, who, one day, brought a portable hard drive to my apartment and gave me a ton of new bands and songs to check out (this was long before Spotify). Like Russian Circles (who I shared yesterday), Mogwai were one of the band's that I got hooked on, and have remained a fan ever since. The band was first formed in 1995, and have continued playing ever since, though the line-up has shifted over time, with the current group consisting of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums) (Source - Wikipedia: Mogwai). The band is considered a post-rock band, as they absolutely go into some massive, reverb drenched soundscape jams, but they also have much more solid, straight-forward rock-ish tunes, along with pieces for movie and TV soundtracks.

starting in 1997. Their last album was released in 2017, though they do have another coming out this month, actually. I love all of their discography, some parts more than others depending on my mood, but one of their albums that I am always happy to revisit is their 2011 album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, which came out just as I was discovering the group so, like the Russian Circles' album from yesterday, I find that whenever I listen to it, I am taken back to that time, and the feelings this album evoked in me. The whole album is great, and I could've used any of them for today's post, and really had the same general description, but I decided to go with 'Rano Pano'. The song is based around a super cool Lydian idea, which sometimes resolve, but always takes us back to that sharp 4, keeping a sort of tension even though it isn't a particularly dark or foreboding tune.