Mogwai Unveil Cover Art

Mogwai is set to push the boundaries of where art meets rock even further into the abyss with the announcement that their new album, "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will" will be released on February 15th, 2011, on Sub Pop Records in North America and the band's very own label, Rock Action Records in the UK. The band is now giving away "Rano Pano" from the upcoming album and it will be released as a 7" single on January 18 via Sub Pop, with the non-album track "Hasenheide" as the B-side.

"Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will," the band's seventh album, was recorded over the summer at Chem 19 Studios, in Hamilton and mixed at The Castle Of Doom. Hardcore... is produced by Mogwai confidante Paul Savage (the man behind Mogwai's exceptional 1997 "Mogwai Young Team" album)."We hadn't recorded with Paul since Mogwai Young Team (in 1997). Not for any particular reason but I think in the years since, both us and Paul have grown quite a bit and it seemed timely to work with him again. We're massive fans of work he's done with The Twilight Sad and Phantom Band."

"San Pedro" is the furious sequel to "Glasgow Mega-Snake" from 2006's "Mr Beast," a driving, dueling guitar battle where the band hurtle through to thundering climax. "Letters to the Metro" is yet more quintessential Mogwai, sweetly melodic and oddly sentimental, where plaintive piano pokes and brushed drums set against loping, mournful guitar twangs: A thing of beauty.

Elsewhere, the twitchy, mechanized ghosts of Suicide and Neu! are evoked on songs like "Mexican Grand Prix" and "George Square Thatcher Death Party." Mogwai have always excelled at the hypnotic but show an even greater range of textures here. "How to Be a Werewolf" is similarly textured, rolling, gliding and building before exploding forth with streaks of molten, stereoscopic guitar.

Closing track "You're Lionel Ritchie" is a brooding monster that not only sends off into the night sated, but solidifies the veteran ceiling-dwelling soulster's place in popular cultural history-as a footnote to Mogwai's continued forward progress. "I saw Lionel Richie at Heathrow but I was still drunk from DJing in Barcelona," Braithwaite admits. "That is what I said to his face. The rest of the band was incredibly amused."

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will tracklisting:

• White Noise

• Mexican Grand Prix

• Rano Pano

• Death Rays

• San Pedro
• 
Letters To The Metro

• George Square Thatcher Death Party
• 
How To Be A Werewolf

• Too Raging To Cheers

• You're Lionel Richie
 


Mogwai are: Dominic Aitchison, Stuart Braithwaite, Martin Bulloch, Barry Burns and John Cummings.


There will also be a Limited Edition version of the album, which includes a bonus CD featuring a 26 minute long piece called ‘The Singing Mountain' recorded for Douglas Gordon and Olaf Nicolai's ‘Monument for Forgotten Future' installation in Essen, Germany. The band will be bringing their awesome live show across the globe, kicking off their world tour with a 5 show stint in their native Scotland before heading out to Japan, Ireland, UK, Europe and US with one off shows in Tokyo, Japan on February 2nd 2011, with more details to follow.

US DATES
 TOUR DATES

• Apr 19: 9.30 Club, Washington DC

• Apr 20: Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia

• Apr 21: Webster Hall, New York

• Apr 22: Webster Hall, New York

• Apr 23: Paradise Rock Club, Boston

• Apr 25: Olympia Theater, Montreal

• Apr 26: Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

• Apr 27: Mr. Smalls Theatre, Pittsburgh

• Apr 28: St. Andrews Hall, Detroit

• Apr 29: Metro, Chicago

• Apr 30: Slowdown, Omaha

• May 2: Bluebird Theater, Denver

• May 3: In The Venue, Salt Lake City

• May 5: Wonder Ballroom, Portland

• May 6: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver

• May 7: Showbox at the Market, Seattle

• May 9: Regency Ballroom, San Francisco

• May 10: Mayan Theater, Los Angeles

• May 11: Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach

• May 13: Sunshine Theatre, Albuquerque

• May 15: Granada Theatre, Dallas

• May 16: Stubbs Waller Creek, Austin

• May 17: Warehouse Live, Houston

• May 19: Workplay Theater, Birmingham

• May 20: Center Stage, Atlanta

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