#rock action

[musickickztoo]

Scott Asheton *August 16, 1949

[iamlisteningto]

Mogwai’s Rock Action

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Mogwai - God Gets You Back

[leiselaute]

Mogwai - Two Rights Make One Wrong from "Rock Action". Released 30 april 2001

[saramencken]

Mogwai performing live in Reykjavik

Via White Rabbit Books

[piasgermany]

[Album + live] Neues Album von bdrmm: "Microtonic" erscheint Ende Februar!

Heute meldet sich das Quartett bdrmm aus Hull mit der neuen Single „John on the Ceiling“ zurück und kündigt sogleich das neue Album „Microtonic“ für den 28. Februar 2025 auf Mogwais Label Rock Action an. 

Das pulsierende Late-Night-Feeling von „John on the Ceiling“ steht stellvertretend für ein neues Album, das die Band einige Schritte nach vorne bringt. Die Anfrage, Daniel Avery zu supporten, und ein Ausflug zum Field Day für einen Gruppen-Rave waren beides entscheidende Momente für die Entscheidung der Band, mehr Dance-Music-Elemente in einen Sound einzubauen, der sich in den letzten Veröffentlichungen bereits stetig weiterentwickelt hatte.

Die erste Single „John on the Ceiling“ ist ein Song, für den die Band schon früh in ihrer Karriere das Fundament gelegt hatte, der aber eine Richtung repräsentierte, für die sie zu diesem Zeitpunkt vielleicht noch nicht das volle Selbstvertrauen oder Know-how besaß. Die Fertigstellung der treibenden Single sollte den Grundstein dafür legen, wie sie den Rest von „Microtonic“ angehen und den Präzedenzfall für ihr drittes Album als Ganzes schaffen.

Sänger und Gitarrist Ryan Smith äußerte sich wie folgt zu der neuen Single: „Die Themen, die John on the Ceiling umgeben, sind die der Verwirrung und der Zweifel. Wenn etwas zu Ende geht und ein neues beginnt, gaukelt man sich ein falsches Gefühl der Sicherheit vor, dass die gemachten Fehler nicht wieder passieren werden. Das passiert immer wieder, bis man in der Schwebe gelähmt ist. Können sich Menschen jemals wirklich ändern?“

Das 10-Song-Album „Microtonic“, das mit dem langjährigen Bandkollegen Alex Greaves aufgenommen wurde und Gastauftritte von Syd Minsky-Sargeant (Working Men's Club) und Olivesque (Nightbus) enthält, ist zweifellos ein kühner Sprung für die Gruppe, die sich ein breiteres Spektrum an Klängen und Atmosphären zu eigen gemacht hat.

„Ich fühlte mich gezwungen, eine bestimmte Art von Musik zu schreiben, die zu dem Genre [für das wir bekannt waren] passte, aber dann hat sich etwas gelöst und ich fühlte mich freier, das zu schaffen, was ich wollte“, sagt Ryan. „Und was ich im Moment zu tun scheine, ist eine Menge elektronischer Musik - mit Einflüssen aus verschiedenen Bereichen der elektronischen Musik, von Tanzmusik bis zu Ambient und experimentelleren Quellen.“ 

bdrmm's Trademark-Sound ist keineswegs verschwunden, die eher gitarrenlastigen Anfänge der Band sind eine Blaupause und ein Einfluss auf viele der Gruppen, die sich im Hier und Jetzt durchsetzen, einer Zeit, in der Shoegaze sein stärkstes Revival seit seinen Anfängen in den 80ern erlebt, aber diese Gitarren sind jetzt in eine breitere, expansivere und abwechslungsreichere Klangpalette eingebunden.

Tracklist "Microtonic":

goit (ft Working Men’s Club)

John on the Ceiling

Infinity Peaking

Snares

In the Electric Field (ft Olivesque)

Microtonic

Clarkycat

Sat in the Heat

Lake Disappointment

The Noose

Die Band kündigt heute außerdem eine Tour für 2025 an, die auch zwei Termine in Deutschland beinhalten wird: 22.03.25 Köln - Club Volta 23.03.25 Berlin - Säälchen  Booking: Z|ART

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[rastronomicals]

5:00 PM EST November 12, 2024:

Mogwai - "2 Rights Make 1 Wrong" From the album Rock Action (April 4, 2001)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Scottish Post-rock

[beif0ngs]

There is no live action adaptations of Avatar: The Last Airbender...

[chloesimaginationthings]

Do you think the Withereds will be in the FNAF 2 movie?

[stevenvenn]

Cloth - Pigeon (from Secret Measure) Have you checked out the new album from Glasgow’s Cloth? Loving the vibe of this new one out on Mogwai’s Rock Action label. Nice!

[switchscene]

A punk house is a magical place. Like, no really it is. The one I spend time at, it's down in Florida and it's one of the only music venues in the city that's not centered around sex or drinking. It's run by local queer punks, there's a "dorm" where you can sleep if you're having a a bad time at home, there's space for traveling bands to spend the night after a show, there's a community garden and a pop up shop and once it's autumn there's a bonfire most nights. We see so many shows there, and hang out and do art together, and recently we had a big fundraiser to keep it there another year. It was my band's biggest show we've ever played and it was the best time ever <3

Here's us closing our set with To Risk To Live by Days N Daze, follow us (Twig and Leaf) on Instagram and if you're ever in South Georgia or North Florida, hit us up and we can jam together.

[musickickztoo]

Scott Asheton † March 15, 2014

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Something something Merlin is Arthur's bane.

[swordheld]

do the silly thing. if you do not do the silly thing time will pass and it will not be the same silly thing it could have been. it will still be silly, and it will still be yours, but it will not be the same. this is both a blessing and a curse, but so is living; and if you do not do it now when will you? who will? it has to be you, it was always meant for you, waiting for you.

[bamsara]

I dont know if it was intentional but I love that Narinder when he sees Lamb throwing up he turns gentle and pushes their wool and ears back so they dont get stained with vomit and for some reason it reminded me of how when Nari was throwing up too after the nightmare he had when they were on route to fight Leshy, Lambert helped him with camellias for the nausea.

Ahh, parallels. I think.

IM SO GLAD YOU POINTED THAT OUT allow me to ramble for just a moment.

Narinder was trapped in the Afterlife for over 1000 years, with little social skills and plagued by wishing for vengeance and his only company being two kittens who become disciples under his rule. He has terrible social skills, if not lacking them entirely.

(I would argue that Aym and Baal also have horrific nonexistent social skills, so those three cat's can't really help each other communicate properly to anyone else outside themselves.)

It can be argued that since The One Who Waits had other vessels to pass time and try to kill /annoy his siblings before the prophesized Lamb arrival, that he would have developed them a little bit more, but I would argue that the power balance would have been oodles more severe since the vessels weren't the promised one. He didn't need them, so if they no longer were of service or disobeyed him, he got rid of them. Whether just sending them out or killing them, any how.

Lamb, however, knows they are the last Lamb, the prophesized liberator of The One Who Waits, and therefore his only option. They knew that they were his only reasonable way out of there (whether they asked for it or not) so they were oodles more comfortable than how a professional relationship would have been.

So they asked questions, bothered him, played and ran around him. Complained and vented to him. Yapped and yapped. What is he gonna do? Kill them? Find a new vessel? He can't. "You're as trapped into this prophecy as much as I am, so let's be friends"

Example parts from Chapter 3:

The power balance equalizes because Lamb did not see his presence a God, but rather a fellow prisoner and victim of fate. Rude and demanding, but in the same chains as they were. 'My lord' was simply formalities at first.

This puts Narinder / The One Who Waits in social situations he hasn't been in (or hardly been in) in over a thousand years, and frankly, he had no idea how to navigate them:

Example from Chapter 5:

The God of Death has not needed to comfort or 'be there' for someone in a long, long time. The Lamb's presence is what forces him to try, even if his first attempt aren't perfect. So in that same chapter, he'll ask them a question to distract them. Conversation. Like how they do it.

While I won't post a screenshot of everytime this happens in written format (not including the dreams/memories/flashbacks that haven't been posted yet)-

The One Who Waits is pushed outside of his bubble when it comes to socializing in a way that isn't just 'God-to-Lowly-Vessal' format. He has to talk to them like a person, because he's being talked to like a person, not a god on a pedestal.

Obviously after the final battle and betrayal (to both of them, otherwise known as the Grand Miscommunication) this means nothing for a while as tempers are still high and feelings are hurt. But overtime, this returns, and can show in small ways (ways that may not seem like comfort but is certainly an attempt) like just in Chapter 18:

Trying to bring them an 'offering' (breakfast) mirroring other times the Lamb has done the same for him:

Crudely offering to replace something they are upset at losing/later offering reassurance abet in a curt way:

And what you mentioned: earlier when the Lamb is throwing up, narration shows they're having trouble with keeping their wool, cloak, bell, ect all back at the same time. He can see that. He has a mental boiling pot explosion over the fact that helping them is even a want that he has after the denial crisis he's experiencing where the only answer a minute ago seemed like he needed to kill them, and he chose comfort.

It is intentional. Narinder is learning how to show care, and allowing himself to show care. Slowly, and not perfect, but learning.

[lbhslefttiddie]

"Shen Jiu, you really are a demon!"

in which yue qi saves an injured fox kit, which turns out to be an young fox demon. once he's recovered enough strength, he adopts a human form so that he can talk to yue qi properly, but ends up being caught by the slave traders as well. Since he can change form, it would be pretty easy for him to escape, but if he's discovered as a demon he'll never be able to return, and he has no home or family anyways, so he decides he would rather stay and help qi-ge, who will probably get himself killed without someone to stop him from doing stupid shit.

when shen jiu saves yue qi from death by horse carriage, and subsequently is bought by qiu jianluo, fairly quickly qjl realizes he is not human, and delightedly gifts him with a enchanted collar, which renders him unable to chnage forms, stuck in him demonic form and unable to change to full fox or full human shape. like this, he cannot leave the qiu manor at all without immediately giving himself away, even if qjl hadnt also locked him up. like this, he has no choice but to wait until yq makes his way back to the qiu manor at last, but when he's finally freed, he's initially almost feral from how he's been treated, and very nearly kills yqy...