Mogwai
The Hawk is Howling
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 | I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead | 6:44 | 44,076 | |||
| 2 | Batcat | 5:23 | 49,896 | |||
| 3 | Danphe and the Brain | 8:34 | 45,756 | |||
| 4 | Local Authority | 6:19 | 44,134 | |||
| 5 | The Sun Smells Too Loud | 6:58 | 50,608 | |||
| 6 | Kings Meadow | 4:41 | 41,472 | |||
| 7 | I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School | 8:18 | 32,957 | |||
| 8 | Scotland's Shame | 8:00 | 34,177 | |||
| 9 | Thank You Space Expert | 7:53 | 38,295 | |||
| 10 | The Precipice | 6:41 | 34,724 | |||
| 11 | Dracula Family | 0:30 | 3,283 | |||
| 12 | Stupid Prick Gets Chased By the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend | 5:09 | 9,866 | |||
| 13 | Devil Rides | 4:00 | 6,177 |
About this album
Released: 17 Sep 2008 13 tracks (79:10)
The Hawk Is Howling is the sixth studio album by Mogwai released on September 22, 2008. It was recorded and produced by Andy Miller at Chem19 Studios (Hamilton, Scotland) and mixed by Garth Jones at Castle of Doom Studios (Glasgow, Scotland) between September 2007—March 2008.
It contains all the extremity and dynamics fans have come to know of the band, but with a more curious array of rhythms and melodies, hinting a bit more than previous records at both their electronic and metal influences. Additionally, with only two songs under the five-minute mark, this is maybe their most “cinematic”-sounding record to date.
This album marks the first release by Mogwai to be completely instrumental. In an interview with Scottish magazine The Skinny, Barry Burns explained: “It’s only if we have a song that doesn’t sound as if it’s finished that we’ll try and put samples, singing or spoken stuff over it. We just didn’t feel like it needed it this time. We’ve always been thought of as an instrumental band, and now, after ten years, we’ve finally delivered,”
It contains all the extremity and dynamics fans have come to know of the band, but with a more curious array of rhythms and melodies, hinting a bit more than previous records at both their electronic and metal influences. Additionally, with only two songs under the five-minute mark, this is maybe their most “cinematic”-sounding record to date.
This album marks the first release by Mogwai to be completely instrumental. In an interview with Scottish magazine The Skinny, Barry Burns explained: “It’s only if we have a song that doesn’t sound as if it’s finished that we’ll try and put samples, singing or spoken stuff over it. We just didn’t feel like it needed it this time. We’ve always been thought of as an instrumental band, and now, after ten years, we’ve finally delivered,”
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Shouts
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Quicksand227 wrote:
I almost forgot how much I love this record
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Daniel_Green wrote:
Beautiful.
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Fuhrerfuzzy wrote:
fuckin excellent
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oszo wrote:
This album deserves a tracklist!
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Inartificial wrote:
I agree.
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muraliavarma wrote:
Damn, last.fm should have some kind of UGC system where normal people like me would be able to upload Album info if it has crossed a certain number of scrobbles [or a certain percentage of the total Artist scrobbles, or sth like that]. Or some other mechanism to ensure authentic info [rating system, maybe?] This is the only thing, I feel, is lacking in an otherwise amazing website...
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frogmilk wrote:
?? 1.3m plays and still in no way linked with mogwai page or search tool. only accessible by entering uri.
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FootToFace wrote:
i would too
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Wubsy wrote:
Very good album, I considered it one of the best of the year.
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halospartan wrote:
The band or label has to come on the site and put the track list in. The only reason this album page exists is because people have been scrobbling the songs.
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Wooshmeister wrote:
Where the hell's the track listing? >:|
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disastercasper wrote:
Great album
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Makiavell wrote:
Great album. IMO their best since Young Team. I adore "I love you, I'm going to blow up your school", besides "Batcat", "I'm Jim Morrison..." and "Thank you space Experts" are really good. The funniest thing is "The Sun smells too loud" which I understand as a kind of joke, beacause it has nothing in common with Mogwai, that everybody know
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PorcupineTrees wrote:
shout out out otu
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FreakStorm wrote:
The only thing I don't like about this album is its cover.
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Categorized wrote:
finally a cover! let the massive praise of this beauty begin.
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greene1994 wrote:
ONLY THREE SHOUTS? holy crap! this is a great album
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pecusita wrote:
Gotta give it up to whoever illustrated that hawk! but where's the tracklist?!!!!
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VonHades wrote:
lol :o
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Djeezes wrote:
No shouts?
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Recent Activity
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emicom, guilty_geek, oscrmyer and 22 other people loved Mogwai – Scotland's Shame. Thursday morning
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andyp and musicfreesmind loved Mogwai – The Sun Smells Too Loud. Thursday morning
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BOR3AS, guilty_geek, MisterNovember and 4 other people loved Mogwai – Thank You Space Expert. Thursday morning
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BOR3AS, karbonkidzero, guilty_geek and 5 other people loved Mogwai – I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School. Thursday morning
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BOR3AS, II8D, Hanzz6 and 8 other people loved Mogwai – Local Authority. Thursday morning
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musicfreesmind, fabronea, r4b1d and 13 other people loved Mogwai – Kings Meadow. Wednesday evening
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DavidLP12 and wielmoznypan loved Mogwai – Batcat. Wednesday evening
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DavidLP12, va_G, wielmoznypan and 1 other person loved Mogwai – I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead. Wednesday evening
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