#coolverine

[deadpoolsbathwater]

yeah we did do poolverine at the ice cream museum actually (@demon4dilfs was coolverine)

[deweaponize]

" wolverine? more like coolverine, amirite? 😌 "

❝ superman? more like superstar! ❞ she's starstruck! ✨

[jungleindierock]

Mogwai - Coolverine

Taken from the new album 'Every Country's Sun' out 1 Sept 2017 on Rock Action Records (Temporary Residence in North America / Spunk Records in Australia). Video directed by Hand Held Cine Club.

[effing]

Mogwai - 'Every Country's Sun' (2017) #Mogwai #EveryCountrysSun #2017 #vinyl #record #vinylrecords #records #clearvinyl #schallplatten #Coolverine #PartyintheDark @mogwaiband #postrock #slowcore #rockaction @rockactionrecs (at Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsnt3w2nAPd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5t4n5ga8cfe

[lunapaper]

In Mogwai’s new video for ‘Coolverine,’ we’re defyiiiiing graaaaaaavity...

In true cinematic style, we find the world suddenly caught in the grips of an anti-gravity nightmare, with life tipped upside down for some yet others are still left with their feet firmly on the ground. The scene almost seems rather Biblical, like a modern-day Rapture has taken place where the virtuous will ascend to heaven but the heathens remain on Earth. Or maybe it’s the reverse. Have those who’ve been selected lost their way? Do they want to be lost? Are they trying to escape life?

But the rate at which those are chosen is rather random, much like life itself. We don’t know what today, tomorrow or even the next half hour holds. Much like chaos theory, what we say, what we think, what we do can change the outcome in a split second. It also seems to show just how fragile, how unpredictable time, space and everything in between can truly be, that there’s something so horrifying in losing control and yet so liberating for those who feel the weight lift off of them.

Honestly, this video was so cryptic and so beautiful to watch I didn’t know where to start...

'Coolverine’ is the first track released off Mogwai’s upcoming album Every Country’s Sun, following on from 2014′s Rave Tapes. The video was directed by brothers Justin and James Lockey of Hand Held Cine Club, who also play alongside Mogwai frontman Stuart Braithwaite in Minor Victories. 

Every Country’s Sun is out September 1.

-Bianca B.

[thebittersweetdistractor]

MOGWAI  “Coolverine”

Scottish post-rock icons Mogwai have announced the follow-up to their 2014 album “Rave Tapes”, it’s called “Every Country’s Sun” and is out September 1 on Temporary Residence. Listen to the first single, titled “Coolverine”.

[inthemoodofmusiclover]

Coolverine de Mogwai

Taken from the new album 'Every Country's Sun' out 1 Sept 2017 on Rock Action Records (Temporary Residence in North America / Spunk Records in Australia)

Video directed by Hand Held Cine Club (http://handheldcineclub.com)

[musicalhitchhiker]

Mogwai – Coolverine

Glasgow kökenli post-rock grubu Mogwai, 2014′te Rave Tapes adlı albümünü yayınladıktan sonra, Atomic ve Les Revenants adlarında soundtrack albümler paylaşmış ve Before the Flood filminin soundtrack albümünde de bir şarkı ile yer almıştı. Grup, 3 yıl aradan sonra, 1 Eylülde Every Country’s Sun adlı 9. uzunçalar albümünü piyasaya sürecek. Mogwai’nin ilk olarak duyurduğu albümün açılış şarkısı Coolverine oldu.

Albümün şarkı listesi:

01 Coolverine 02 Party In The Dark 03 Brain Sweeties 04 Crossing The Road Material 05 aka 47 06 20 Size 07 1000 Foot Face 08 Don’t Believe The Fife 09 Battered At The Scramble 10 Old Poisons 11 Every Country’s Sun

[tadasgay]

i was tagged by @leopika through osmosis

rules: “you can usually tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to! put your music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people!”

1. cocoa hooves by glass animals (emery’s impact<3) 2. total life forever by foals 3. nothing’s gonna hurt you baby by cigarettes after sex LOL  4. come closer by the glitch mob 5. cудно (Борис Рыжий) by molchat doma Yeas sovietcore<3 6. local joke by neon indian 7. black sheep by sneaker pimps 8. walk in the park by beach house 9. the blue dress by wild nothing 10. call by black marble

tagging:

@coolverine i wanna see what fucked up songs you get

@artisanhistoria get ta=hat doja cat ready

@fasti get that abba ready

@dumbestbitch i don’t think you listen to music actually

@sabrinagrimm i don’t even know what music you like this is a crime

@kishinuma hi wtf is ur main blog idk

@noct i diagnose you with mother mother

@rose-eater hiii i can;t be mean to you

@soren whore

@falkner MANIFESTING MSI FOR U

@hythiodaeus you shuffling through your birds and putting down their sweet birdsong:

[landgraabbed]

rules: we’re snooping in your playlist! put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs and then choose 10 people

thank you so much for tagging me @cyazurai!! i’m tagging.... i’ve seen this around so uh. i won’t tag anyone but if you want to give this a spin, here’s your tag. go wild!

end times - andrew prahlow (i am once again asking you all to play outer wilds; don’t look it up. go in blind. you won’t regret it and it will touch your soul)

heaven up there - palace

naked we rise - racing glaciers

let it happen - tame impala (ok but real talk ik we’re all losing our minds over the bass at 6:15 which..... agreed, but the real moment for me is the middle intermission at around 3:50 or so)

calliope - waterstrider

fear inoculum - tool (still cannot believe it’s here after 13 years)

getting sodas - the world is a beautiful place & i am no longer afraid to die

total life forever - foals

coolverine - mogwai

spectacular rival - george ezra (ok but in a world where jessamine and malcolm skip the friends phase and go straight from enemies to lovers this is the song for them)

[nearit]

2018 by Mogwai

I saw the band at their Christmas show at the Glasgow Hydro, Winter 2017.  I’d been at a wedding earlier that day and turned up to the gig in my suit, but something I’d eaten had caused a revolt in my gut so I spent half the show spewing my ring in the bathroom.  The other half was spent lying flat out in my seat, barely able to move as the waves of noise went through me.

I can only have looked ridiculous but it wasn’t the worst way to experience this music, with years of reviews and parodies and interviews and anecdotes rendered inaccessible by fresh weakness.  Old or new, all these songs have the same trajectory: in time you will be overwhelmed, whether by the stalking rhythms of ‘Remurdered’, the sweet crescendos of ‘Helicon 1′ or the slow, heavy pulse of ‘Don’t Believe the Fife’.  This is what you go to a Mogwai show for, to feel like your entire physical being has been obliterated, and to start every song in the place where you know’ll finish it is no bad thing.

As for the bus home, well, that was a different story.  

[trvepeak-blog]

Mix Analysis #5 “Coolverine” by Mogwai

FOREWORD

It took Mogwai 10 seconds after “Coolverine” started to drag me back into their very own world. That's all the time they need to create that special feeling I only get when Iistening to their music, which sounds mysterious, indefinable and brings up contradictive emotions like hope and resignation and mixes them all together. No matter what instruments they use or which keys they play in, they will always sound like Mogwai. That special sound is a part of my life and sort of soundtrack to it since the release of “The Hawk Is Howling” in 2008.

When I listen to “Music For A Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)” from 2011's “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” for example, it will always remind me of a very, very rainy walk in the park while I listened to it. Or “I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead” of “The Hawk Is Howling” which brings up memories of long nocturnal highways in North Germany. Anyway, enough of the sentimentality, let's put “Coolverine” under the microscope!

HARD FACTS

PLR: ~ 10.0 (lowest) ~ 5.0 (highest)

Average Loudness: -9.3 LKFS

Inter-Sample Peaks: -0.6 dBTP (left) -1.1 dBTP (right)

Digital Peak: -0.6 dBFS (left) -0.6 dBFS (right)

Mix: Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios

Master: Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios

Year of Release: 2017 For measuring the PLR, Average Loudness and Inter-Sample Peaks I used MasterCheck Pro by british company Nugen Audio. To keep it as neutral and simple as possible, I chose the „Optimal Master - Codec Only“ preset. For measuring the Digital Peak Level I used the 4U Meter, Fader & MS-Pan Plug-In by german company HOFA. The DAW used is Logic Pro X. The source material is 16 Bit and 44,1 kHz. If you want to now what all those fancy words mean, have a look at this article.

The waveform shows a compromise between most possible loudness and preservation of dynamics and transients. This can be confirmed after running it through Nugen Audio's MasterCheck Pro. The PLR is high but normal for a band of this genre. The average loudness of -9.3 LKFS isn't very low either but given the fact it's a CD Master not that fatal. This value is very important though, when it comes down to mastering for streaming services like Spotify or YouTube. From a technical standpoint it's an excellent example of how to treat your music: No Inter-Sample Peaks, nor digital peaks and even some headroom left!

“Coolverine” may sound like a simple, monotonous, repetitive song but there is a lot to discover if you're willing / able to take the time to do so. For example the iconic tremolo guitar at the beginning of the song on the right channel, the tastefully placed reversed snares and the ever changing sound of the drums: First “normal”, then very distorted and after that only the room signal but still distorted. After a short break, the drums come back with a super hard panned Ping Pong Delay on the snare. Delicious! The climax of the last part gets even more intense with the subtle choir underneath it and the direct, slightly distorted overall sound.

PERSONAL IMPRESSION

To me, “Coolverine” is one of three highlights on “Every Country's Sun”, the other two being “Party In The Dark” and “Don't Believe The Fife”. The rest of the record is solid but those tracks really pop out. “Party In The Dark” for example is the most danceable pop song Mogwai ever wrote without sacrificing their musical identity. “Don't Believe The Fife” starts reluctant but slowly raises the suspense curve and explodes into a big, intense finale which repeats the theme of the song with full intensity.

CONCLUSION

“Coolverine” is not only one of the best songs on “Every Country's Sun” but also an ideal compromise between loudness and preservation of dynamics without falling victim to the loudness war. Mogwai are leading by example that loudness is not an indicator for success but a well written song which was treated with care and the listener in mind during mixing and mastering.