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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
Masters at building tension upon tension then gently letting it go, their cyclical instrumentals are both sorrowful and consoling. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Hawk Is Howling is a reassertion of Mogwai's strengths and testimony that they are still credible and productive. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
It's a page out of Mogwai grandchildren Ratatat's playbook, and it shows these Scots doing something we haven't seen them do in a while: evolve. |
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| n/a by www.lostatsea.net |
Despite its lack of youthful anarchy, The Hawk Is Howling is an impressive record. Mogwai are among the world's most gifted musical collectives; perhaps they have just been making music too long to want or need to reinvent the game again. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
The Hawk Is Howling may not induce the apprehensive anxiety of Happy Songs For Happy People or even match the apocalyptic ambience of Rock Action, but when taken in isolation, even outside of the Mogwai name, it holds its own as Mogwai's first solely instrumental album |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
Using a combination of brilliant textures and powerful, atypical chord progressions, Mogwai paint a picture equivalent to an auto-stereogram, popularized in those Magic Eye books 15 years ago. You almost need to loose your focus to let the music really sink in. |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
When they work up a good buzz and growl ('Batcat') or hit a scrumptious riff ('The Sun Smells Too Loud'), Mogwai still take your breath away. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Hawk makes marginal stylistic advances that it could stand to omit, and it lightly retreads stuff that needs no recapitulation. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Mogwai could very well go their entire career without quite making that perfect album, but when everything they put out is this intricate, idiosyncratic, and immersive, its splitting hairs to even care. |
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| n/a by www.urb.com |
The Hawk is Howling is Mogwai at its best. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
These 10 songs evolve unhurriedly and, as with all Mogwai's best moments, like time-lapse photography from the heart of a dark storm. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
This one is subtle, but very much worth exploring. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
The Hawk Is Howling is a record that shows Mogwai's lips to be sealed, but speaks volumes about their depth and ingenuity. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
The Hawk is Howling is an immensely satisfying, patient, and expertly crafted album that ranks among their best. |
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| n/a by www.sputnikmusic.com |
The Hawk Is Howling is just an ambiguous mixture of the band's past. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Hawk wades through the electronic textures and the roiling, tentative mood pieces that make Mogwai's weaker tunes logical (if not ideal) soundtrack fodder. The result, unfortunately, is a lot of running in place, when at this point it'd be far more daring to aim skyward. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
Not that a few half-baked progressions spell disaster for Hawk, a record that methodically moves from dreamy, lush, introspective numbers to tension and ultimately catharsis in the way Mogwai is close to perfecting. |
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