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- Summary: The sixth album for the Scottish rock band was produced by Andy Miller.
- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 27
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Mixed: 7 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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The Hawk is Howling is Mogwai at its best.
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It's a page out of Mogwai grandchildren Ratatat's playbook, and it shows these Scots doing something we haven't seen them do in a while: evolve.
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Under The RadarThis album kills. [Fall 2008, p.77]
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MojoThe Hawk Is Howling finds the Glasgow's guitar army relaxing the taut, economical songcraft of its 2006 predecessor, "Mr. Beast," and setting a new standard for irreverent track titles. [Oct 2008, p.102]
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Despite its lack of youthful anarchy, The Hawk Is Howling is an impressive record. Mogwai are among the world's most gifted musical collectives; perhaps they have just been making music too long to want or need to reinvent the game again.
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Hawk wades through the electronic textures and the roiling, tentative mood pieces that make Mogwai's weaker tunes logical (if not ideal) soundtrack fodder. The result, unfortunately, is a lot of running in place, when at this point it'd be far more daring to aim skyward.
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Hawk makes marginal stylistic advances that it could stand to omit, and it lightly retreads stuff that needs no recapitulation.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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May 13, 2011
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Mar 10, 2021
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