The Sun Smells Too Loud

I recently discovered the music of Mogwai, a band of Scottish fellows who make wonderful instrumental sounds. As I disagree and take umbrage with most people over most things instrumental music suits me best as I can add my own lyrics, which mainly consist of me commenting on the people around me and shouting at traffic. Look for me wandering around the Christchurch area.

Well, Mogwai are coming back with a brand new album of musics, called “The Hawk is Howling” in September. And to celebrate this they have released one track for frees, called “The Sun Smells Too Loud” which is bout as good a song title you will hear this year. That is until Mogwai beat this with other titles from the album such as “I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead”. The true winner for song title of the year if not the decade though, might also belong to Mogwai when before the album they release an E.P. called Batcat which features the intriguingly titled “Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend”. I have no idea what Coldplay title their songs, but I rest safe in the knowledge those titles are 6 million times better.

As for the music, “The Sun Smells Too Loud” is very good, mixing traditional Mogwai sounds with an injection of electronic stuff. Go download it and write your own review god damn it.

LINKS:
Download the track
Mogwai’s official website
Mogwai’s MySpace
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Kudos to Alex for alerting me to all of this.