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UncutDec 11, 2012The remixers' default mood is kind of middle-of-the-road electronica, neither daring nor danceable. [Jan 2013, p.79]
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MojoDec 17, 2012This succeeds chiefly because its remixers take such drastic liberties with the source material. [Jan 2013, p.92]
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Q MagazineNov 28, 2012Thoughtfully conceived and carefully executed, it's a record worth braving. [Dec 2012, p.122]
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Nov 26, 2012Their taste in remixers still tends to the indie-friendly, but their imposing guitar squalls are repeatedly processed into a wildly different beast.
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Nov 26, 2012Anyone unacquainted would be better off buying the original album, enjoying the aural experience of one of Mogwai's best for years and then revisiting what is essentially an add on, albeit one which builds on an impressive base and is an involving and exciting listen in its own right.
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Dec 3, 2012It's a changeup from the group's traditionally untraditional post-rock, which is exactly what it's supposed to be, and perhaps that's a success in itself.
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Nov 27, 2012One wonders if the venture should have reached out to the band's full catalogue, but it remains an adventurous extension for those who hold them dear.
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Dec 3, 2012For better or worse, though, the album illuminates qualities in Hardcore Will Never Die that would have been easy to either miss completely or conveniently ignore, making it a worthwhile supplement to an already exceptional album.
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Nov 26, 2012A more succinct approach to these re-assembled works would have done wonders, though as it stands leaves these ten tracks merely as a curiosity for long-standing Mogwai fans only.
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Dec 4, 2012And so it goes with Mogwai's A Wrenched Virile Lore: a broad range of electro producers, ambient knob-twiddlers, and singer-songwriters re-assemble the Scottish post-rock champs' most recent studio album, the excellent Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, mostly with shitty bonus-feature-styled results.