“Matador Records” Archives

Mogwai proves they’re still very capable of taking familiar sounds and crafting beautiful, compelling music with them.

Perfect and stunning.

Aereogramme always seems to introduce a fatal flaw into their songs.

My Father My King is ultimately an extremely loud footnote in Mogwai’s history.

Mogwai change up their sound a bit with more emphasis on vocals, to excellent results.

At the moment, it’s the most fascinating thing I’ve listened to in a long time.

Listening to this band, you wish they get everything they long for, because if they do, that means there’s a small chance you might get it too.

This is one dirty album, and wonderfully so at that.

Cat Power used to be one of those bands that I lumped in with “all the rest of the indie crap that’s not drone.”

Picks right up where their ferocious debut, 1997’s Young Team, left off.

My less-informed-than-some view is that Yo La Tengo are steadily getting more subtle, more heady, and better with age.