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Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003 - Mogwai
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79 out of 100

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9.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: This disc compiles tracks from all five sessions the band recorded for the BBC's John Peel and Steve Lemacq shows.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Drowned In Sound
    100
    This is ageless music, and utterly, one hundred per cent essential.
  2. Playlouder
    90
    Easily one of the most essential sessions albums ever released, this, and probably one of the year's most essential, full stop.
  3. Uncut
    60
    There's nothing here to surprise anyone familiar with Mogwai's chiefly instrumental, epic soundscaping. [Mar 2005, p.120]
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. DavidC
    10
    An album of tracks recorded live for various Peel Sessions on BBC Radio, Government Commissions (the album name presumably relates to the BBC being a statutorily regulated body) captures the intense beauty of Magwai as a live act, but not their ferocity, you'd have to see the live for that. Having said that, this is a damn good album, especially the epic version of Like Herod which is musical abstract expressionism taken to the extreme - dark and long, paint it black.… Expand
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  2. Daniel
    10
    Great Album.
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  3. TylerT
    10
    Mogwai makes my brain smile.
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