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Feb 19, 2021It may have taken Mogwai 25 years to open up like this, but it was well worth the wait: As the Love Continues is another peak in their long and influential career.
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Feb 23, 2021A laser-focused record that’s their longest studio album since The Hawk is Howling, but has a lightness of touch that feels nothing of the sort.
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Feb 17, 2021‘As The Love Continues’ is Mogwai at their best, and is possibly their most consistent record since 2006's ‘Mr Beast’. Their mums should be proud.
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Feb 22, 2021As The Love Continues sees Mogwai’s voyage into sound progress in a stately manner as tracks like Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever and the misnomered Fuck Off Money tread an unlikely fine line between waft and heft.
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Feb 18, 2021As expected, the album’s only low moment comes with the introduction of vocals on ‘Richie Sacramento’. Thankfully, this doesn’t last long. The group are soon back on top of things with the majestic ‘Drive The Nail’ and we’re instantly transported back to their uniquely-formed wonderland.
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May 13, 2021This isn’t a case of trying to reinvent the wheel so much as it is reveling in just how very good you’ve gotten a making wheels in the first place.
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Feb 17, 2021As the Love Continues is one of them. Already an enduring album, it will surely solidify Mogwai's venerated status as shamans of our collective consciousness.
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MojoFeb 17, 2021Their clearest vocal to date, not from a guest, but from guitarist/mouthpiece Stuart Braithwaite. ... Yet another high water mark in Mogwai's irresistible ride. [Mar 2021, p.83]
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Feb 17, 2021An album that’s up there with their best, one of their most powerful and cohesive statements to date.
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Feb 22, 2021As the Love Continues comes off as a reminder of the emptiness of all things and the importance of finding meaning anyway. It’s a hymn to melancholy, and a strike against infinite sadness.
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Feb 17, 2021As The Love Continues is a solid gold reminder that while Mogwai may no longer be the future, they deserve and reward every ounce of continued love. A happy 25th to the old team.
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Feb 17, 2021As The Love Continues inevitably finds purchase on our tumultuous moment in its deftly summoned suggestions of sorrow and fear, resilience, and close-guarded hope.
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Feb 19, 2021Overall, As the Love Continues ends up as one solid album that does a great job blending the Mogwai we are accustomed to into a friendlier direction. I wouldn’t place it up there with the best though.
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Feb 19, 2021Mogwai’s attitude towards experimentalism shows in the darker corners, the nooks and crannies of their sound where little glow worms of ideas grow and decay. Elsewhere this is well-orchestrated, subtle and playful, with the confidence to indulge both themselves and the audience.
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Feb 19, 2021It's a continuation of their bombastic instrumental rock, adding enough new experiments to keep things interesting, but staying close enough to their well-hewn sound to ensure a cosy familiarity.
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UncutFeb 17, 2021Bristles with the unruly energies that enlivened their younger incarnations. [Mar 2021, p.32]
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Feb 19, 2021As the Love Continues is an album of incremental changes and monumental sounds.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 31
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Mixed: 3 out of 31
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Negative: 2 out of 31
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Feb 14, 2022
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May 16, 2021
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Mar 10, 2021Stil creative after 25 years. Don't expect new stuff. No need to, too. It would be kind of cruel.