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2 ratings · avg 3.8
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1 review
- 3.5
This is a great follow up to HSFHP (which is kinda weak). 2006 was my year of post rock and this was a cornerstone. It’s not their best, but it fit into a magical era for me for a few months in 2006. Glasgow Mega-Snake was the first time they rocked out in an almost alternative rock way that suits them well on this album. I had never seen Mogwai live except once in a blackout. I got to see them twice touring this album. Once at Coachella which moved me to tears, and then 2 weeks later at Avalon in Boston. What a time to be alive and sober.
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Critics
8 publications
- Kerrang!5/5
- musicOMH5/5
- NME9/10
- Rock Sound8/10
- The Guardian4/5
- Mojo4/5
- Pitchfork Media6.8/10
- Rolling Stone3/5
- Metacriticaggregate74/100
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Mr. Beast album cover
The Mr. Beast cover was designed by Jaffacake Kid and The DLT and illustrated by Amanda Church.
- Design
- Jaffacake Kid, The DLT
- Illustration
- Amanda Church
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10 tracks · 43 min
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Mr. Beast is the fifth full-length studio album by the Scottish post-rock group Mogwai. The album Mr. Beast was released on March 6, 2006 in the UK and March 7, 2006 in the United States, in double LP vinyl format, a regular CD jewel case edition and limited deluxe edition package that comes with both the album on CD and a DVD documenting the recording process entitled The Recording of Mr. Beast. The album has been described by Creation Records head Alan McGee as "...probably the best art rock album I've been involved with since Loveless. In fact, it's possibly better than Loveless." referring to the influential 1991 album by My Bloody Valentine. Drummer Martin Bulloch describes it as “...the best record we've made since Mogwai Young Team.” The album's title stemmed from an incident where Barry Burns and Dominic Aitchison landed in Florida to start a tour with The Cure in 2005, when they saw a taxi driver standing outside the airport holding a sign that said "Mr. and Mrs. Beast" which, after a 10-hour flight, was "funnier than life itself".
In brief
- Is Mr. Beast good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Mr. Beast 3.8/5 from 2 ratings.
- When was Mr. Beast released?
- Mr. Beast was released in 2006 on Rock Action Records.
- How many tracks are on Mr. Beast?
- Mr. Beast has 10 tracks, with a runtime of 43 minutes.
- What genre is Mr. Beast?
- Mr. Beast is catalogued under Post-Rock, Post-Metal.
- What BPM is Mr. Beast?
- Mr. Beast runs at a median tempo of 114 BPM across its tracks, most often in F# minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Mr. Beast?
- Listeners of Mr. Beast also rate In Rainbows by Radiohead, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky, Ágætis byrjun by Sigur Rós.
Mr. Beast at a glance
- Labels
- Matador Records, Play It Again Sam
- Produced by
- Mogwai, Tony Doogan
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