This week's PBS Feature Album is The Bad Fire, the eleventh album by Scottish rock band Mogwai.
Named after a working-class Glaswegian term for Hell, The Bad Fire reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through at the time of writing. The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience. At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground.
Yet the music contains an updraft, a sense of beauty encased in the onslaught. This holds you up, suspended and empowered, reminding you that paradise is your birthright. This is especially true of The Bad Fire. It may have been created in dark conditions, but all that is transcended by the act of four musicians working together here, now, in the moment – the only place where Mogwai exist.
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from The Bad Fire, and PBS Members have the chance to win a copy of the album on vinyl: simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday February 2.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Close Counters - 'Freedom We're Needing' feat. Shiv
Wrong Way Up - 'Sweet Sweet Music'
Marlon Williams - 'Aua Atu Rā'
Sierra Ferrell - 'The Garden'
Floodlights - 'The Light Won’t Shine Forever'
The Pro-Teens - 'Sofa King'
J.WLSN - 'Crushed'
Equal Parts - 'The Fly'
Harvey Pink - 'Tinnitus II'
Teether & Kuya Neil - 'ZOO'
