Tracklist
Hunted By A Freak | 4:09 |
R U Still In 2 It | 6:19 |
New Paths To Helicon Pt II | 2:53 |
Kappa | 4:26 |
Cody | 6:08 |
Like Herod | 18:30 |
Secret Pint | 4:45 |
Superheroes Of BMX | 7:30 |
New Paths To Helicon Pt I | 8:13 |
Stop Coming To My House | 4:42 |
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wonderbrat
July 24, 2011
edited over 10 years ago
referencing Government Commissions - BBC Sessions 1996-2003, 2xLP, Comp, PIASX051DLP, 940.0051.012
referencing Government Commissions - BBC Sessions 1996-2003, 2xLP, Comp, PIASX051DLP, 940.0051.012
In my opinion this is Mogwai at their best. And as is often the case: Peel Sessions show wonderful bands at their peak. (Since these efforts were recorded over a wide span of of years, it goes to show where the best could be achieved: at the Maida Vale Studios, where all material was recorded save for the briefest track.)
Everything else they published pales by comparison with these organic washes and surges and implosions. This is majestic music to provide you with an idea of what it could sound like if matter was re-organising in new forms and preparing for earthly life to come in a few hundred million years. These colossal shards and blasts and moving accretions and impressive disintegrations sound organic, but that very metaphor is inapproriate, because on the other hand you would never envisage the colour green which appears essential to what we consider to constitute processes of life. Do these sublime as-it-were symphonies depict them in real time, or is it some grand fast motion, making audible what actually took place over centuries?
A grand oxymoron of a soundscape! And a monument to the quality of collaboration Peel could achieve with the BBC.
Everything else they published pales by comparison with these organic washes and surges and implosions. This is majestic music to provide you with an idea of what it could sound like if matter was re-organising in new forms and preparing for earthly life to come in a few hundred million years. These colossal shards and blasts and moving accretions and impressive disintegrations sound organic, but that very metaphor is inapproriate, because on the other hand you would never envisage the colour green which appears essential to what we consider to constitute processes of life. Do these sublime as-it-were symphonies depict them in real time, or is it some grand fast motion, making audible what actually took place over centuries?
A grand oxymoron of a soundscape! And a monument to the quality of collaboration Peel could achieve with the BBC.
idioteque77
December 24, 2019