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| 6.8 by Pitchfork Media |
The longest song on Mr. Beast, Mogwai's fifth studio album, runs 5:46. The entire LP clocks under 45 minutes. Ordinarily, this isn't the kind of thing you'd bother pointing out in a record review, bu... |
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| 3 by Rolling Stone |
Guitar-wielding Glaswegian five-piece Mogwai have long delighted in the seeming contradiction of playing somber, go-deaf-to-this noise rock while peddling bitingly funny slogancentric T-shirts (BLUR A... |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
A superb album. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Unlike previous releases, when we were taken on several rides within a solitary track, the thrills and tempo changes have been stretched out to album length, making this offering essentially a forty-three-minute song, with each track becoming a spike or dip along the way. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
Ten years after they first assaulted us, Mogwai remain as vital as ever. |
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| n/a by www.noripcord.com |
Compelling and emotionally charged. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
It's all a lesson in taking the rough with the smooth, from the best teachers around. |
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| n/a by www.drawerb.com |
Mr. Beast isn’t Mogwai’s most challenging or daring record, but it might be its most beautiful or powerful. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
There are no huge surprises on this album - it sounds and feels exactly how you'd expect - but somehow "Mr Beast" still seems vital and forward thinking. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
It is hard to say which side of Mogwai is more moving, the quietly beautiful or the transcendently loud, but the great thing about Mr. Beast is that you don't have to decide. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
At this point, Mogwai have learned enough from their mistakes and built enough on their strengths that Mr. Beast could be considered by all means a flawless record. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
The result is that we have a transitory album, but also a typically beautiful and subtle one. |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
A solid – albeit unadventurous - long-player, which refines instead of redefines and consolidates more than it innovates. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
A beautifully tense and thoughtful record. |
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| n/a by www.lostatsea.net |
Mr. Beast is by far Mogwai’s most accessible album to date, teetering between epic hard rock and a melodic, driven vocal delivery. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
For the most part, "Mr. Beast" finds Mogwai quite comfortable in a genre they've helped define. |
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| n/a by BBC |
A more straightforward affair than previous works, and as such suffers from predictability. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
If you like Mogwai for the sounds they make, for their instrumental dynamic and ebbing/flowing moodiness, you'll probably like Mr Beast - there's certainly little to object to. But if you love Mogwai... perhaps Mr Beast isn't for you. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
There’s little to differentiate Mr. Beast from Happy Songs, and less to recommend it in the face of Mogwai’s potent catalog. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
While Mr. Beast may not sound as fine Happy Songs... or Rock Action, it no doubt kicks ass live. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Simplicity doesn't make Mr. Beast unpleasant, just dumb. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
Their efforts at stretching boundaries falter because they have inscribed themselves within such narrow aesthetic parameters, hitting a fourth chord feels like a massive achievement. |
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| 7 by Aftonbladet |
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| 7 by Metica |
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