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Mogwai
Mogwai is a post-rock artist from Glasgow, Scotland formed in 1996. 59 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Post-Rock · Glasgow, Scotland · Best post-rock albums
- 59
- Releases
- 1997–2025
- Active years
- 1996
- Formed
Discography
29
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Rave Tapes
2014 · 10 tracks
As the Love Continues
2021
Every Country's Sun
2017
The Hawk Is Howling
2008
Atomic
2016
Mr. Beast
2006
Happy Songs for Happy People
2003
Rock Action
2001
Come On Die Young
1999
The Bad Fire
2024
The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (Soundtrack)
2025
Mogwai Young Team (Remastered)
2023
Black Bird
2022
Black Bird (Season 1)
2022
ZEROZEROZERO
2020
KIN
2018
Before the Flood (Music from the Motion Picture)
2016
Central Belters
2015
Les Revenants Soundtrack
2013
A Wrenched Virile Lore
2012
Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will
2011
Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will (Music for a Forgotten Future)
2011
Special Moves Bonus Tracks
2010
Special Moves
2010
Government Commissions (BBC Sessions 1996-2003)
2005
Kicking a Dead Pig
2001
Young Team
1997
Ten Rapid
1997
Ten Rapid: Collected Recordings 1996-1997
1997
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Singles & EPs
30
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EP · 2014
Les Revenants
EP · 2013
Fanzine Made Of Flesh
Single · 2025
Lion Rumpus
Single · 2024
God Gets You Back
Single · 2024
Boltfor
Single · 2022
Take Sides
Single · 2021
The Reach
Single · 2021
Ritchie Sacramento
Single · 2021
Dry Fantasy
Single · 2020
We're Not Done (End Title)
Single · 2018
Donuts
Single · 2018
Eternal Panther
Single · 2017
Coolverine
Single · 2017
Party in the Dark
Single · 2017
U-235
Single · 2016
Ether
Single · 2016
Bitterness Centrifuge
Single · 2016
San Pedro
Single · 2011
Earth Division
EP · 2011
Mexican Grand Prix
Single · 2011
Rano Pano
Single · 2011
EP+6
EP · 2009
Bat Cat
Single · 2008
Glasgow Mega Snake
Single · 2006
Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, an Original Soundtrack by Mogwai
Single · 2006
Travel Is Dangerous
EP · 2006
Friend of the Night
Single · 2006
Miami Vice Tracks
Single · 2006
My Father My King
EP · 2001
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About
Mogwai were formed in Glasgow in 1995 by Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison, who had known each other since 1991, along with childhood friend Martin Bulloch on drums. The name is taken from the creatures in the film Gremlins — Braithwaite has admitted it means nothing in particular, and that they always intended to find a better one but never got around to it. After a string of singles that quickly caught the attention of the British music press, debut album Mogwai Young Team arrived in 1997 — a record that landed like a bomb in the post-rock landscape and is still regarded as a milestone in the genre. With Barry Burns on guitar, piano and synth from second album Come On Die Young (1999), the classic line-up was in place. Eleven studio albums later — from Rock Action (2001) and Mr Beast (2006) to As the Love Continues, which in 2021 reached number one on the UK Albums Chart — Mogwai are one of the most influential and enduring bands in modern instrumental rock. They have also composed music for film and television, including the soundtrack to the French series Les Revenants and the documentary Atomic.
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The music operates in the space between the barely audible and the deafening. Mogwai build long, predominantly instrumental compositions where melodic bass lines and fragile guitar landscapes slowly grow towards massive walls of distortion and noise — only to pull back again. The influences range from Slint, My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth to Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin and Philip Glass, but the result is unmistakably their own. It is music that can be bleakly beautiful one moment and brain-crushingly brutal the next, often within the same song. The band themselves have called it “serious guitar music”, and it is a description that holds. Live, Mogwai are an overwhelming experience. The volume is legendary — this is a band that plays so loud it is felt physically in the body — but it is never noise for noise’s sake. The dynamic shifts that define the records become even more dramatic in a concert hall, and a piece like “Mogwai Fear Satan” can grow into something that feels equal parts transcendent and devastating. After three decades, they remain one of the most spectacular live bands in the world.
Mogwai in brief
- How many Mogwai releases are on Riffiter?
- 59 releases are catalogued, spanning 1997 to 2025.
- When was Mogwai formed?
- Mogwai formed in 1996, in Glasgow, Scotland.
- What genre is Mogwai?
- Mogwai is catalogued under Post-Rock.
- What is the most recent Mogwai release on Riffiter?
- The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (Soundtrack), released in 2025.