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Mr. Beast [CD + DVD] [Limited Edition]

~ Mogwai
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (6 Mar 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Limited Edition
  • Label: Pias
  • ASIN: B000E0DJFY
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50,742 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Auto Rock
2. Glasgow Mega-Snake
3. Acid Food
4. Travel Is Dangerous
5. Team Handed
6. Friend Of The Night
7. Emergency Trap
8. Folk Death 95
9. I Chose Horses
10. We’re No Here
Disc: 2
1. The Recording Of Mr Beast (DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
The fifth album from Mogwai should satisfy those fans who’ve feared their heroes might be losing their sharp-taloned gremlin edge. Mr Beast, you see, is a significant jerk of the volume knob--a record that finds these Scots avant-rockers sporadically reaching again for the same skull-crushing levels of sound that lent earlier albums like 1997’s Young Team such noise-freak notoriety.

The lessons in songcraft learnt on more recent works like Happy Songs For Happy People, however, have stuck: for every dials-in-the-red rocker like "Glasgow Mega-Snake" or "We’re No Here", there’s a more sedate moment like the Barry Burns-sung "Acid Food" or piano-accompanied "Friend Of The Night" to give the album a nice peaks-and-troughs feel. There’s a special guest too, in the shape of Tetsuya Fukagawa of Japan’s Envy, a hardcore outfit with clear similarities to Mogwai’s cacophonic sturm und drang. The surprise being, however, that the track in question, "I Chose Horses" is a soft, lilting keyboard number that’s possibly this band’s plain loveliest moment to date. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
'Mr. Beast' is the fifth album from Glasgow alt-rock titansMogwai. Fusing abstract melodies with a brooding, distinctive wall of sound, the band have set out a brave sonic blueprint over the course of their career, and this album is no different. Includes the single 'Friend Of The Night'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Diverse yet cohesive fifth offering from Scottish rockers, 4 Mar 2007
By M. J. Pucci "Big Riff" (Milton Keynes, UK) - See all my reviews
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Mr. Beast marks the long-awaited return of much-loved Scottish band Mogwai. On this, their, fifth album, the band display their mastery of both epic, skyscraper-razing post-rock (see `Glasgow Mega Snake') and understated, hypnotic melancholia (`Acid Food', `Friend of the Night'), as well as reaffirming the theory that vocals should be used sparingly for maximum effect: only three of the ten tracks on offer here feature any singing, and while Tetsuya Fukagawa of Japanese hardcore band Envy's spoken word contribution to `I Chose Horses' is unlikely to get the dancefloor pumping down at your local vodka bar, it is a gently moving experience representative of the album as a whole.

At just ten tracks, and with none of the songs here breaking the six-minute barrier, `Mr Beast' is Mogwai's most concise album to date. It also marks a logical artistic progression, combining the best bits from previous albums, as well as building on their reputation as an awesome live band.

The DVD that accompanies this version is a rather typical studio documentary, featuring snippets of interviews with the five members (in which they reveal who they think is the most handsome/talented member of Mogwai, and why it's probably not worth reading too much into the song titles) and clips of the recording process - a lot of which by their own admission is a bit "ho-hum." Still, worth watching at least once.

Matt Pucci
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mr Beast pleased to meet you !, 6 Mar 2006
Well I guess its being a long time coming but, the Mogwai boys are back, with another special helping of the magic

I think that the 5th album is an album in which they return to old roots but also try new and different things, with a slow start of auto rock with the ever build of layers! It’s a start to a album which you wanting for more
I feel it a great start to one of the most important cd you will buy this year with the end of this comes the return to the old school mogwai with the Glasgow mega snake strange title, but if think about it you can feel the snake chasing you down the street of Glasgow!!
Acid food with the slow drum beat with the vocals and travel is dangerous with the very mysterious beginning which be come a mix of vocals and effortless use of guitar , drums and that lovely use of distortion and white noise
Team handed is nothing more than a fill in for me it lends no real use to the album it bumbles along. Its ok but not there strongest work I feel would of being more at home the CODY cd but mogwai have proven that they are so much more than
that now, with the release of rock action and the happy songs for happy people

Everybody saw a real shift in the old mogwai which I happened to like and think that the experience of this has made them a far more diverse
Then comes the turn of the friend of the night with many up lifting layers to
Emergency trap with a first listen you feel that that it is going to explode into a war of noise but never does hum’s its way to a light hearted finish.
Folk death 95 is some what like ratts on HSFHP which I like and think
I chose horses is one of mogwai cleverest uses of music instrument and vocals to date
Then were no here which in my mind is a great way to finish a really fantastic cd
With almost a question asking what will be next from the boys north of the board

If you own any mogwai cd s previous to this then it in some ways almost a retrospective of the past 4 with subtle hints of them all but also a new level and is well worth the money you part with!

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