Glasgow's post-rock heroes performed songs from their latest album "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will" together with some older favourites such as "I Know You Are But What Am I" and "Hunted By A Freak". We remember buying the band's masterpiece "Come On Die Young" on a heavy double vinyl on a Gothenburg school trip in 1999. Who would have thought about recording a gig eleven years later then? Enjoy a band who deserves your full attention.

"The price for all this hominess is basically any lingering sense of mystery. Mogwai can chime away pleasantly during "Death Rays"-- featuring the band's best guitar lick in years-- but it can't turn "Rano Pano" into "Stanley Kubrick". This is fine, as long as we're willing to admit that we get different things out of Mogwai albums these days. This is a record of savvy rock vets kicking at distortion pedals until something frothy emerges. I'm on board if the results are going to be as page-turning-ly melodic as "How to Be a Werewolf" or as playful as the pitch-shifted "George Square Thatcher Death Party". The mistakes are easy to forgive: "White Noise" is the band's most vanilla opening track ever. The slide-guitar panorama of "Letters to the Metro" will still your blood just as surely as "Like Herod" once boiled it, but it's merely the type of innocuous doodling the band has long padded its albums with." Pitchfork

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