Happy Songs for Happy People: Mogwai: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Hunted By A Freak

2. Moses? I Amn't

3. Kids Will Be Skeletons

4. Killing All The Files

5. Boring Machines Disturb Sleep

6. Ratts Of The Capital

7. Golden Porche

8. I Know You Are But What Am I?

9. Stop Coming To My House

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Adventurous Scot rockers Mogwai may never shake reputation for creating brutal music, but Happy Songs for Happy People demonstrates that they can do more than render the aural equivalent of being sucked out a spaceship airlock. Until now, Stuart Braithwaite had taken on the role of Mogwai's bandleader by proxy, his tumultuous guitar playing serving as the outfit's hallmark. Now, however, multi-instrumentalist Barry Burns has stepped to the fore--albeit, with much more restraint--crooning effects-heavy vocals on "Hunted By a Freak" and teasing out a meditative piano line on the ghostly "I Know You Are But What Am I?" Indeed, more than any other Mogwai work, this album aims to create sheer bliss. Even the amp-busting crescendo of "Ratts of the Capital" matches its dark-metal pomp with chiming orchestra bells and starburst lead-guitar lines. No sudden banjo interludes or guest vocals jar with the album's slow passage toward its conclusion. True, it's hard to shake the feeling that they'll never again write something as monumental as Come On Die Young. But Mogwai still sound lush and powerful. Their time hasn't passed. --Louis Pattison

Album Description

The fourth album from Glasgow's kings of glowering, volatile quasi-instrumental rock is subtler than their previous work, compositionally beautiful but intense and trance-inducing at the same time. 9 tracks. Matador. 2003.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I guess you can't call it morose music for morose people--, April 24 2004

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Happy Songs for Happy People (Audio CD)

--who'd buy it?--so I guess the next best thing's Happy Music for Happy People. That way, at least, you might, serendipitously, hook all the--probably not inconsequential--optimists out there.

Dreamy, gorgeous soundscapes for the unfolding apocalypse.

Does it lack res? Of course. But so what? It's MERELY ravishingly, stultifyingly dazzling. What more do you want in these days of untethered postmodernism?

A master narrative?

Look elsewhere.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Happy Music F or Happy People, July 14 2004

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Eric Egler (Fort Wayne, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happy Songs for Happy People (Audio CD)

This album is nothing exceptionally new...however, it does make for excellent homework and highway driving music...just don't listen to it while driving in town or you'll rear end someone or fail to remember the approaching curve in the road and die because it's a little too relaxing. The relative absense of vocals, and the complete absense of "words" (at least intelligible ones) is probably what seperates this from any other mid 90's college rock band, but, hey...it's a tolerable genre, even with it's inheritant generic nature. Buy it if you want, you probably won't think it sucks, and due to it's nature, it's an album you can listen to in its entirety without really favoring any songs much more than any others.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stop Coming to My house, Mar 15 2004

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A. Kohler "andysavestheday" (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews
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As I descend further and further into the bottomless hole that is music, I continue to unearth new and exciting artists the likes of which I could have never imagined existed. Mogawi is one of my finest discoveries yet, an amazing band that have the rare ability to craft beautiful songs that sound fresh and stimulate happiness.

Happy Songs for Happy People is my introduction to Mogwai, and what a first impression it has made upon me. For weeks I have stayed up late nights listening to this CD, totally entranced by its beauty. Happy Songs is a beautiful some what instrumental post-rock album with a very mellow and relaxed feel. melodies and guitar float in the air while solid percussion and string arrangments keep things grounded while exploring new heights at the same time. Listening to this album feels like cool autumn nights, my best dreams, and butterflies in my stomach all in one.

As cliche as it sounds, I can't describe the album in words, nor can I describe its beauty. See other reviews for detailed descriptions of Mogwais sound or songs on this album. I can't say any more than that this is a beautiful album, but that's really all that needs to be said.

Review in a nutshell: Happy Songs for Happy People is a lush, full musical experience that I can not get enough of.

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