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- Summary: The Scottish five-piece noise-rock band’s latest album is a mix of distorted guitars, piano and synthesizers –- minimal and with little to no vocals whatsoever.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Rock
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Positive: 29 out of 34
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Mixed: 5 out of 34
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Negative: 0 out of 34
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Feb 14, 2011Hardcore Will Never Die has a good amount of brawn to it but ultimately falls into the category of breathtaking music that isn't made too often.
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Feb 14, 2011The thicker the walls of sound this time around, the better, too--the forward-marching layers of distortion throughout "Rano Piano" and at the end of the hyper-cinematic "You're Lionel Richie" are the most purposeful and satisfying aspects of the album.
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Feb 23, 2011While their spacious, mostly instrumental music makes good use of dynamics (and reaches ear-bleeding volumes during live shows), they mark their label switch from Matador to Sub Pop with a lightness (as in absence of darkness, not bereft of weight) that's refreshing.
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Feb 16, 2011If Mogwai are looking for new routes to explore then Hardcore is a strong first venture.
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Feb 15, 2011The peaks and valleys have eroded into slightly more forgiving terrain on Hardcore, but they're still worth a trip.
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Feb 14, 2011Every band should mature like the Mogwai lads: still inventive, still challenging themselves and still insanely loud.
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Feb 14, 2011It's not that it's post-rock-by-numbers, although at times it really is, but more so that it doesn't even sound like there are painters behind the palette.
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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