Mogwai Share New Single ‘Fanzine Made of Flesh’
The track is the third single taken from Mogwai’s upcoming album, The Bad Fire.
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‘Fanzine Made of Flesh’ is the latest single from Mogwai’s forthcoming eleventh album, The Bad Fire. Arriving January 24 via Rock Action, the album is available to pre-order/pre-save here.
A chirpy dose of guitar-fueled, post-synth rock, ‘Fanzine Made of Flesh’ is a more vibrant song than many of Mogwai’s moodier compositions. Even frontman Stuart Braithwaite agrees, calling ‘Fanzine Made of Flesh’ a “cross between ABBA, Swervedriver and Kraftwerk.”
“‘Fanzine Made of Flesh’ was written in Brooklyn when I was staying at Alex Kapranos’s (Franz Ferdinand) house in autumn 2023,” says Braithwaite in a press release about the song.
“In my head it sounds like a cross between ABBA, swervedriver and Kraftwerk though that might be ludicrous. It originally has a straight vocal but we ended up vocoding it on the last day of recording. It’s pretty different and I’m really happy with how it turned out.”
The song is accompanied by a music video from Anges Haus who had this to say about the film clip: “When I was sent the track, I embraced being unable to understand any of the words, and I didn’t want to know where the title came from. As I was listening, I wanted to make a video that matched that - a pseudo-film trailer with a jumbled plot that you can never grasp.
“You kind of have to piece it all together on your own. I really wanted it to seem like there could be a full-length film version with vague horror tones, emotional entanglement, and nods to weird art films from the 90s, and an autobiographical storyline about growing up non-binary, but not realising it. Perhaps one day I’ll extend it into a full film.”
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The Bad Fire was produced by Grammy Award winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, The Killers) at Chem19 studios in Blantyre, Scotland. Three singles have been released from the album so far – ‘God Gets You Back’, ‘Lion Rumpus’ and ‘Fanzine Made of Flesh’.
Mogwai kick off an extensive run of international dates next month, performing shows across Europe, Asia and America. In our review of their Adelaide gig at Hindley Street Music Hall last February, our writer Will Oakeshott wrote: “The Scottish post-punk rockers melted faces with their intricate wall of sound.”
The Bad Fire arrives January 24 via Rock Action and is available to pre-order/pre-save here. Check out the album artwork and tracklisting below.
The Bad Fire
1. God Gets You Back
2. Hi Chaos
3. What Kind of Mix is This?
4. Fanzine Made of Flesh
5. Pale Vegan Hip Pain
6. If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others
7. 18 Volcanoes
8. Hammer Room
9. Lion Rumpus
10. Fact Boy
