Mogwai - Hawk And Dove

What to say about The Hawk Is Howling, the new Mogwai album? The first listening left me… cold. As days passed I felt a little bit more comfortable with it and now the record doesn’t leave my CD player! Looks like Mogwai return to their roots, the songwriting is more in a traditional Mogwai style, the one from the firsts CDs (Come On Die Young, for example). It’s less sophisticated than Rock Action, that I like very much, it’s not Zidane, but still very powerful. It’s a question of taste; you may like the "old" Mogwai or the more refined one or both, like me, or not at all.
Anyway, in The hawk Is Howling, there is enough good songs for them to put the fire on stage once again. Remember, Mogwai is a stage band above all, the sound is always awesome and it’s one of the loudest bands that I ever saw. There is a European Tour scheduled for October/November with a stop in Paris - yeah! Go but don’t forget your earplugs…
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