Mogwai today release their new song Fanzine Made Of Flesh, the latest cut to be taken from their forthcoming eleventh album, The Bad Fire. The track was premiered by Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 6. The Bad Fire is set for release on January 24 via Rock Action Records. The release follows God Gets You Back and Lion Rumpus.
Fanzine Made Of Flesh is a graceful culmination of everything that makes Mogwai great. Stuart Braithwaite’s surging chord progression is paired with a vocoded vocal, whilst the work of keyboardist Barry Burns shines through, with Burns shifting between an elastic lead line and layers of arpeggiated synth.
Braithwaite says, "Fanzine Made of Flesh was written in Brooklyn when I was staying at Alex Kapranos’s house in autumn 2023. In my head it sounds like a cross between ABBA, swervedriver and Kraftwerk though that might be ludicrous. It originally has a straight vocal but we ended up vocoding it on the last day of recording. It’s pretty different and I’m really happy with how it turned out."
The song is supported by a striking video directed by Agnes Haus, who says "When I was sent the track, I embraced being unable to understand any of the words, and I didn’t want to know where the title came from. As I was listening, I wanted to make a video that matched that - a pseudo-film trailer with a jumbled plot that you can never grasp. You kind of have to piece it all together on your own. I really wanted it to seem like there could be a full-length film version with vague horror tones, emotional entanglement, and nods to weird art films from the 90s, and an autobiographical storyline about growing up non-binary, but not realising it. Perhaps one day I’ll extend it into a full film."
Listen to Fanzine Made Of Flesh here: lnk.to/fanzine
Pre-order The Bad Fire here: lnk.to/thebadfire
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