Mogwai – KIN: OST
KIN provides Mogwai's first opportunity to lend their talents to a major Hollywood production, and given the run of form they're on just now it's come at the perfect time
Mogwai have been slowly inching their way towards this point, having already written the soundtracks for Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, Before the Flood, Atomic and Les Revenants among others. However, KIN provides their first opportunity lending their talents to a major Hollywood production, and given the run of form Mogwai are on just now it has come at the perfect time.
While it is obviously difficult to fully judge a soundtrack without having seen its accompanying film, there is an instantaneous reaction provoked from listening to basically any Mogwai record, a band famed for their cinematic scope. Tracks like Flee build up tension in such a way that anyone familiar with Mogwai's music can imagine, but now with the pleasure of – until the Jonathan and Josh Baker sci-fi/crime drama is released at least – picturing the accompanying visuals to go along with yet another excellent piece.
Funeral Pyre, for instance, creates a beautiful mood piece which given its evocative title paints the scene beautifully, presumed or not. We're Not Done (End Title), however, is another slice of pop mastery the band also displayed last year with Every Country's Sun lead single Party in the Dark showing that not only are the band adding to their soundtrack credentials but they're also getting rather good at the old pop banger.
Listen to: Flee, Funeral Pyre, We're Not Done (End Title)
Mogwai play Leith Theatre, Edinburgh, 22 & 23 Aug, as part of Edinburgh International Festival