YOUNG TEAMMogwaiPost Rock/Math rock3.55 | 124 ratings |
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Par for the post rock course Young Team is an album packed with a rollercoaster ride
of emotions, but being released back in 1997 they were ahead of the pack and being
from Scotland quite unique in many respects. There are some truly inspired moments
during Young Team where the band and their brand of melancholia is in perfect
sympathy but there are times where they simply whack off a few intense riffs of
aggression, interspersed with laid back picking, searching through through minor keys
for sounds of sadness. The bass heavy "Like Herod" bringing out the good and the
average of the band. But at least Mogwai are anything but predictable as the turn
many corners, like producing stunning emotions with "Summer (priority version)"
before breaking the noise barrier with a collage of aggressive sounds juxtaposed with
the subtle piano wail on "With Portfolio". Mogwai, according to legend, set out to make
some serious guitar music and they do just that. Their mainly instrumental music is
built around the guitar, musically minimalistic, but they take the electric guitar
through its paces and trash it through walls of sounds and bring it back down
gracefully, yet in a dark place full of emotion and a mellow tone. Much of the narrative
and samples within the music went over my head, and Young Team is not the most
accessible of albums, but at this early stage Mogwai were crafting something different,
original may be too strong a word as they simply tend to stretch out passages and even
drone here and there to be that original, but this album is certainly entertaining,
progressive, atmospheric and sometimes irritating.
Philo |
3/5 |
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