HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL

Having another ironic album name, reading "Hardcore will never die but you will" may fill you with disgust but the music itself is much more peaceful and has thankfully nothing to do with hardcore music. Comparing it to the previous album, this one feels like a slight retreat from heaviness. Instrumentals are well planned and executed if you don't mind repetitiveness. Mogwai has a good ear for melodies as witnessed on the first track "White noise" and the focused "Rano pano". "Dead rays" offers a dreamy introspective. "San Pedro" takes the volume up and will be a good fit for headbangers fully occupying the metal territory. "Letters to the metro" is a typical soundtrack track with lush keyboards, piano and features a country-toned guitar. This one and "Too raging to cheers" could easily fit to the "Les revenants" soundtrack with their atmospheric drive. The latter one has a very elegant chord sequence towards its end. The last track with its absurd name is a masterpiece of how a post-rock track should be developed in terms of intensity, though it is not the most inventive one but certainly a great live track. In my opinion, this album concludes the classic Mogwai era.