A Wrenched Virile Lore
Sub Pop
2012
Rating: 6 vocoder solos out of 10
I've been a Mogwai fan for a long time, but it's interesting how time can change your opinions on a band and their music. When they released the collection of remixes called "Kicking a Dead Pig" in 1998, I couldn't get enough of it. I listened to that double CD constantly, and it was probably the single most played item at my video store gig...it seemed to go well with alphabetizing old horror movies or making sure creepy perverts weren't stealing from the porn room in the back.
Now it's fourteen years later and the band has released another batch of remixes called "A Wrenched Virile Lore," all alternate takes and remixes of songs from the album "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will." And honestly, I couldn't be any more nonplussed about the whole matter. It sounds totally fine and I'm sure plenty of Mogwai fans will dig it, but I'm just not sure I need remixes of their songs in my life at this point. The originals are plenty. Well, the Zombi remix of "Letters to the Metro" is pretty boss, but other than that, <insert photo of shrugging shoulders here>. Soft Moon and Tim Hecker and a bunch of other people I've never heard of also do work here.
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