- 2025-01-08
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MUSIC
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Mogwai Releases New Song “Fanzine Made Of Flesh”
Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, consisting of Stuart Braithwaite (vocals/guitar), Dominic Aitchison (bass), Martin Bulloch (drums) and Barry Burns (guitar), released a new song “Fanzine Made Of Flesh” along with a music video on January 7, 2025.
The song is the third single off of their upcoming eleventh studio album “The Bad Fire”, which is set to be released on January 24, 2025 via Rock Action Records, following “Lion Rumpus” and “God Gets You Back”.
The track was written by Stuart Leslie Braithwaite and produced by John Congleton.
The band frontman Stuart Braithwaite said of the song, “‘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 accompanying video was directed by Agnes Haus, who described the clip as “a pseudo-film trailer with a jumbled plot that you can never grasp”. Starring Anthony O’Connor, Morgan Savidan, Dizzy Maggs, Rob Whyte, and Penelope Trappes.
Agnes Haus said of the video, “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.” -
The new album is their first LP in four years since the 2021 album “As the Love Continues” and comprises 10 songs, produced by John Congleton.
The band said of the album, “After the high of putting out As The Love Continues, the following years were personally hard for us. We’ve dealt with a lot of loss and in Barry’s case a serious family illness with one his daughters. Getting back together to write and record this record felt like a refuge and with John Congleton we feel that we’ve made something special. We often hear from people that our music has helped them get through hard times in their lives and for once I think it applies to us as well.”
Photo by Steve Gullick - source : Apple Music
