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BBC Radio 6 did an hour-long retrospective of Mogwai's career, which you can stream here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0520kx9 It's alright. It's not crazily in-depth, but it's pleasant enough and not a bad way to kill a little bit of time. I found the more interesting stuff to be at the beginning. 
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Just a heads up that Explosions in the Sky are playing a free outdoor show in Toronto on August 10th. I will be there because it is free and its EITS.  I saw them in town when Take Care came out and loved it because hey it's the band I listened to non-stop in college right there on stage and they're playing all the songs I ever dreamed about. However, the rest of the crowd was bored as hell and talking through them so maybe that's how you're supposed to feel at a EITS show. I'm also seeing GYBE in September. So it's a post-rock summer for me! 
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Just came back from seeing GY!BE.  I was worried they would play a lot of the more boring drone-ambient stuff from the new album - and just in general - but it was basically hit after hit of awesome. An all around great show. They played Moya which is basically my favorite song in the history of ever. Also played East Hastings to end the night and it was a great way to cap things off. Heard someone outside the venue say "It's the show I waited 14 years to see" and he seemed pretty happy.
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I got my Toronto Sigur Ros Pre-Sale Tickets. It was a digital ordeal. Took time off work to get the tickets. Technical difficulties from the website: waiting in a "queue", slow speeds due to traffic, a loss of secure connection scare or two. In the end I got what amount to nosebleeds at the venue. What should have taken 20 - 30 minutes took an hour and a half, and the tickets were probably $20 more than what they should actually be. I am 99.9% certain that it will be completely worth it.
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Has anyone here seen God is an Astronaut in concert? I'm thinking of picking up a ticket but I'm a little lukewarm on the latest album. Are they mindblowing enough to justify seeing live?
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It's a post-rock year for me and I couldn't be happier. God is an Astronaut and Russian Circles in September Sigur Ros in October Caspian in November  Also, that new Russian Circles song is near-perfect.
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Jul 16, 2016 18:50
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I got tickets to see Mono!
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Also I saw Caspian live for the 4th time tonight and holy gently caress, I've said it in this thread before but if you like post-rock and want to go see an energetic live show, go see Caspian I saw Caspian last November and they were a let down, at least compared to other shows (God is an Astronaut, Russian Circles, etc.) I'd seen that year. To each their own though, maybe they needed to prove something while being sandwiched into that weird metal-group bill. Got tickets to Mogwai in December. I was going to pick up tix for Do Make Say Think but I'm recently unemployed and have to kind of pick-and-choose what I go see. MONO and Mogwai this year heeeeck yeeesss 
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Jehde posted:Mogwai's Every Country's Sun is due September 1st. Stuart describes it as "maximalist", hinting at some return of vocals? Playing their first single Coolverine. Definitely some influence from Atomic and Before the Flood, but more of that rock presence. It's good. I'm digging it. I couldn't get into their "Before the Flood" stuff (felt like wallpaper: it was there, but you don't really notice it), but "Atomic" was great, and this is leaning more towards "Atomic"-style sounds. Junkenstein posted:I think this passed the thread by? I like it, especially the shift around the 6 minute mark.
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Junkenstein posted:The whole experience was kinda helped by the fact that they were playing with the sun setting over Barcelona behind them, but the new Mogwai album sounds loving great. UGH that sounds amazing. drat. I've been unemployed but if this week works out well, I'll be treating myself to Do Make Say Think tix for Saturday. Fingers crossed.
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I'll be at Mogwai tonight rocking hard. I quite like the new album so I'm going to have a lot of fun.
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Dec 5, 2017 22:14
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The Mogwai Show Crossing the Road Material Friend of the Night Party in the Dark Cody Rano Pano Battered at a Scramble Killing All the Flies Don't Believe the Fife I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead Every Country's Sun Mogwai Fear Satan Old Poisons Remurdered We're No Here Friend of the Night/Party in the Dark and Remurdered/We're No Here were the highlights for me. It felt like they would build momentum with a hard song, and then kill it with a slower one, alternating back and forth, but it was decent enough. The crowd was kind of bored though - the same issue with EitS when I saw them: four or five people not giving a gently caress and being super loud and laughing and talking and stuff during songs. Ah well, it was still a solid night.
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Dec 7, 2017 17:06
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Jan 23, 2018 21:20
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This Will Destroy You is playing their first album in it's entirety here in May...might go. Of course I could just listen to the album but its at a venue I've never been to before and it's not super expensive or anything...so we'll see.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQRW0RM4V0k strap on revenge posted:they're finishing up a new album too. go see twdy I caved and got tickets. You absolute monsters.
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Feb 25, 2018 21:44
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God is an Astronaut have a new album out at the end of April, called Epitaph. They've put on one of the prettiest and best post-rock shows I've ever seen, so I am hyped. Two songs have been released: Epitaph Komorebi Epitaph is a mean, hard song and totally unlike their previous work, which makes me interested to see where the rest of the album goes. Komorebi is ambient and kind of filler-ish. Other than the name - "Komorebi is an untranslatable word, which eloquently captures the effect of sunlight streaming through the leaves of the trees. The shadow created on the ground, or even in our curtains, describes this everyday beauty." - it's kind of samey-same. Anyways...can't wait to see them again when they come to my little part of the world.
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Apr 18, 2018 14:58
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Caspian are supporting Minus the Bear all throughout October, on MtB's farewell tour, so if you like both those bands...GO NUTS
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The new TWDY album is "New Others Part One" and it loving owns. Which means that there's a Part Two and it'll own too.
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Sep 28, 2018 15:59
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chunkles posted:Hammock put out a new album and also the Far Cry 5 soundtrack which was pretty good. I very recently "discovered" Hammock through the FC5 soundtrack, and I'm so glad I did. I've been listening to them non-stop for the past few days and I am in awe. Their latest album is beautiful.
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angrygodofjebus posted:Is anyone familiar with Wander? They put out a new album last Friday and I am super digging it. This is good. Really good. Thanks for the share! 
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Mogwai are releasing their latest soundtrack album for pay-what-you-can on Bandcamp and proceeds will support NHS workers and indie musicians. I'm mixed on their soundtrack work. The stuff they did for Kin is excellent, Atomic has it's highs and lows, and Les Revenants is very, very meh and inert. Haven't heard this latest one so who knows? Also, I was supposed to see Caspian at the end of March, and the show they re-scheduled for June was cancelled, which sucks. On Circles is the best thing they've done in a long time, so I've been listening to that pretty much on repeat these days.
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I'm finding it pretty hard to get excited about GYBE in any way. The last three-ish albums had some highlights but really leaned in to the boring ambient drone noise. Not really my thing compared to the earlier albums.
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