Mogwai have shared new song ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’.
Out now, the song is drawn from their incoming album ‘The Bad Fire’, slated to land on January 24th through Mogwai’s own Rock Action imprint.
The album was constructed in Lanarkshire with revered producer John Congleton, but some of the songs have international roots – such as this new single.
‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’ was spearheaded by guitarist Stuart Braithwaite, who kicked off the riff during a spell at Alex Kapranos’s house in autumn 2023.
Spacious guitar effects matched to a potent melodic edge, ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’ boasts Mogwai’s crunching live heft.
Stuart comments…
“In my head it sounds like a cross between ABBA, swervedriver and Kraftwerk though that might be ludicrous. It originally has a straight vocal but we ended up vocoding it on the last day of recording. It’s pretty different and I’m really happy with how it turned out.”
Agnes Haus directs the video for the song, a playful and oddly moving twist on the coming-of-age cinematic vein. She says:
“When I was sent the track, I embraced being unable to understand any of the words, and I didn’t want to know where the title came from. As I was listening, I wanted to make a video that matched that – a pseudo-film trailer with a jumbled plot that you can never grasp. You kind of have to piece it all together on your own. I really wanted it to seem like there could be a full-length film version with vague horror tones, emotional entanglement, and nods to weird art films from the 90s, and an autobiographical storyline about growing up non-binary, but not realising it. Perhaps one day I’ll extend it into a full film.”
Tune in now.
Related: Here We Go Forever: Mogwai Interviewed
