Atomic, by Mogwai

Atomic

by Mogwai

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Melafera For it's epic timeless invitation to unfold... Favorite track: Are You A Dancer?.

Leandro Zipitria Love Mogwai. This album is a classic. Pripyat in particular is pretty touching. Favorite track: Pripyat.

Caleb Bratcher A detailed soundscape that is just plain otherworldly. Atomic is an interesting turn from older Mogwai albums, in a good way. Favorite track: Are You A Dancer?.

ALEX LOPES The songs with the weirdest names are the best songs.
8/10 Favorite track: U-235.

Bart Furp The MogDudes somehow get even more majestic with this soundtrack... Favorite track: Ether.

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1.	Ether 05:10	buy track
2.	SCRAM 05:41	buy track
3.	Bitterness Centrifuge 04:51	buy track
4.	U-235 04:33	buy track
5.	Pripyat 04:19	buy track
6.	Weak Force 05:08	buy track
7.	Little Boy 03:51	buy track
8.	Are You A Dancer? 03:53	buy track
9.	Tzar 05:13	buy track
10.	Fat Man 05:58	buy track

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Atomic, the new album by Scottish experimental rock legends Mogwai, is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousin's acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer.

Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. Mogwai's soundtrack encapsulates the nightmare of the nuclear age, but its dreamlike qualities too. It is the latest in the band's series of impressive soundtracks and scores, following acclaimed albums Les Revenants (The Returned) and Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.

Cousins says of Atomic, the film: "I'm a child of the nuclear age, and in my teens I had nightmares about the bomb. But physics was my favorite subject in school, and I nearly studied it at university. Learning about the atomic world excited me. It was like abstract Star Wars."

Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite says: "The Atomic soundtrack is one of the most intense and fulfilling projects we've taken on as a band. Ever since we went to Hiroshima to play and visited the peace park this has been a subject very close to us. The end results, both the film score and the record are pieces I'm extremely proud of."

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released April 1, 2016

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