Mogwai announce new Album and EP

And it's batshit song titles a go go...
Feature by Dave Kerr.
Published 13 June 2008

Glasgow's favourite sons of post-rock have announced the schedule of their return and revealed the details therein. The Batcat EP is set to appear on 8 Sept, which will usher in their sixth full length album The Hawk Is Howling on 22 Sept.

Featuring a tune called Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend, the tracklisting for the Batcat EP is lightly indicative of Mogwai's apparent subscription to Anton Newcombe's radge school of song titling. The trilogy of tunes will be made available on CD, 12" vinyl and download:

1 - Batcat
2 - Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend
3 - Devil Rides

The song Batcat itself is lifted from the full length LP, The Hawk Is Howling, which will also contain the following, predominantly Newcombe-tastic tracklist:

1. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
2. Batcat
3. Daphne and The Brain
4. Local Authority
5. The Sun Smells Too Loud
6. Kings Meadow
7. I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School
8. Scotland's Shame
9. Thank You Space Expert
10. The Precipice

The band will then embark on this short tour of the UK:

21 Oct - Corn Exchange - Edinburgh
22 Oct - Manchester Academy - Manchester
24 Oct - Hammersmith Apollo - London

Keep yer een peeled for a word with the band on these very pages in the coming weeks.

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    Hi Dave,

    On behalf of Wall of Sound / PIAS, Matador Records and Mogwai, many thanks for plugging “The Hawk is Howling” (release date 21st September) ... .. thanks also, on behalf of the artist and label, for not posting any pirate links to unreleased (studio) material and, if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, preview tracks, then full-length versions of “The Sun Smells Too Loud” and other, exclusive previews are available for fans and bloggers to post / host / share etc in the run-up to release at http://www.matadorrecords.com/mogwai/music.html ... .. do also check-out www.mogwai.co.uk and www.myspace.com/mogwai for news and info on the new album and the band’s 2008 shows.

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