Mogwai rang in their 22nd year of existence with Every Country's Sun, their first non-soundtrack album since 2014's Rave Tapes and their first without founding guitarist John Cummings. Despite the lineup change, there are no drastic differences to the band's approach, and they spend most of the album expressing the extremes of their minimalism and maximalism. They bookend the set with songs that are quintessentially Mogwai: the slow-burning opener, "Coolverine," begins with shimmering keyboards and warm bass before layers of guitar, synths, and brass take the track to the saturation point, while the deep drones and explosive guitars of "Every Country's Sun" close the album with a blaze of cathartic glory.
1 Coolverine
2 Party in the Dark
3 Brain Sweeties
4 Crossing the Road Material
5 Aka 47
6 20 Size
7 1000 Foot Face
8 Don't Believe the Fife
9 Battered at a Scramble
10 Old Poisons
11 Every Country's Sun
