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- Summary: The third LP from Scotland's Mogwai was produced by David Fridmann of Mercury Rev.
- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Instrumental
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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Mixed: 1 out of 16
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Negative: 2 out of 16
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MagnetA massively significant step forward.... Rock Action is so monumentally magisterial, it approaches near heretical status: the post-post-rock era's Sgt. Pet Sounds' Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Gone are the meandering Sonic Youth impressions, and in their place are imaginative songs that don't alienate.
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After you've listened to Rock Action for the first time, you may be hard pressed to believe that Mogwai merely wrote these songs; you'll feel as if they created these symphonies out of thin air, pulling gorgeous sounds from within the deepest recesses of the human soul. Eventually you'll come back down to earth and realize that Rock Action is by no means divine...but it is very, very good.
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SpinAn immaculate 38-minute lullaby for the not-working class, replete with tape hiss and timpani, sweetly brooding vocals, and otherworldly Hobbit-core. [5/2001, p.147]
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This is their most rewarding yet, built to enjoy in one 38-minute session, languid, melancholy tunes growing out of barely audible static pulses, incoherently Vocodered whispers or preposterously exciting cymbal splashes, carried on by soft pianos, vulgarity-free brass and strings into Bitch Magnet-meets-Samuel Barber electric cataclysms.
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Eschewing the sprawling, double-album ethos that marked the group's early entries into indie rock, Rock Action is also more concentrated and less elliptical
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Even [producer Dave] Fridmann's ever-clever studio work can't make Rock Action interesting.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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May 17, 2011
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jeremyj.Jan 1, 2002amazing stuff...gotta be fucking insane not like it
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TubzJan 23, 2005Very Pure. Good Album Overall!
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jbAug 19, 2001Excellent. Had to listen twice in a row to allow the complexities to be absorbed.
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Nov 20, 2021
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mgNov 21, 2002very uneven, and they shouldn't sing. sine wave is excellent.
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