Album Review: Mogwai, Every Country's Sun

Over the last 22 years, Scottish outfit Mogwai have been innovators, architects and standard bearers in the genre known as post rock. After releasing eight electric albums, 13 EPs and a fistful of remix and live records, most would forgive them for taking their foot off the gas a little. They’ve earned the rest, right? That’s never been the Mogwai way, though, and album number nine sees the boys push the boundaries further still, and deliver an 11-song masterclass.
Explosive (‘Battered At A Scramble’), haunting (‘Brain Sweeties’) and exciting (especially on the math rock and punk flavoured ‘Old Poisons’), Every Country’s Sun is an absorbing listen. In particular, the pigeonhole-busting ‘Party In The Dark’ is a huge highlight. A perfect indie pop song taking its cues from New Order and Teenage Fanclub, it proves that two decades on, the Scots still have plenty of tricks up their sleeves.