Mogwai [EP]

Mogwai | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Matador Records
• ASIN: B00002064M
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,848 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stanley Kubrick

2. Christmas Song

3. Burn Girl Prom Queen

4. Rage: Man

5. Rollerball

6. Small Children in the Background

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget lyrics., March 15, 2000

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Max (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mogwai (Audio CD)

The fact that Mogwai will continue to go largely unappreciated throughout their music carrer is a great shame. When I've showed this CD to various people they have instantly brushed it off because of the lack of lyrics. All I can say to this type of person is that you must try to look beyond the superficiality of words over songs and listen to the profound greatness beneath which is Mogwai. Lyrics do not make a great song, feeling and emotion makes a great song and Mogwai oozes with these qualities.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant EP, the best instrumental rock has to offer., November 1, 2004

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Steven Rokosz (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mogwai (Audio CD)

This EP really is near a masterpiece. Rollerball is a slow, ambient piece that doesn't seem to do much, but the rest of the songs here are really gorgeous. Stanley Kubrick, the records finest moment, slithers through your speakers with its blissful melancholy. Small Children in the Background is a track brilliantly done as well -- a painful rage and longing that lurks underneath the surface until it finally reaches its boiling point. There is a hint of optimism in Christmas Song, a charming little piece that shimmers and chimes. These songs conjure up so many memories of life, its desires, its sadness most of all. I had the pleasure of seeing Mogwai recently, not hearing much of their music beforehand, and they promptly blew me away. These guys are truly gifted musicians, and the praise they get couldn't be enough.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awh, Music to Look out of Windows, February 21, 2000

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Charles (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mogwai (Audio CD)

The Mogwai EP is really different from Young Team, and Ten Rapid, but as mighty good. This time around, as oppose to catchy melodies, and smooth basslines, it's just noise that creeps up on you. Noise that you didn't notice, was always playing in the background of your life. (how come Mogwai always seems to know what music played when you were doing blah-blah, so many years ago?) it's haunting. Especially Small Children in the Background. I listened to it while reading Angela's Ashes, and it invoked this spooky sense of my childhood in a Brooklyn brownstones. The large windows frosted over with steam frothing from the hissing radiator (which I'm sure is what's playing in the background of the track exactly). It just envokes this small wonderment of being a child again, so small and insignificant to the world unknown, so happy, so sad. Ahhh lovely. Get everything by this band, they are GREAT!