In 2006, the band provided the soundtrack to the film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, with the soundtrack album released the following year.[43] The band's songs "Auto Rock" and "We're No Here" were used in Michael Mann's 2006 film Miami Vice. The band also collaborated with Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet on the soundtrack to The Fountain in 2006.[44] Mogwai are also featured in the 2009 post-rock documentary Introspective.[45] The band donated an exclusive track to the PEACE project in April 2010 in support of Amnesty International.[46] In 2012, the band provided the soundtrack for the Canal+ French TV series Les Revenants (broadcast as The Returned in the UK). The album, Les Revenants, was released on 25 February 2013.[47] The track "Kids Will Be Skeletons" was featured as part of the soundtrack of the story based video game Life Is Strange.[48]
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The band's influences include Fugazi, MC5, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Pixies, The Cure and post-rock pioneers Slint,[59] and Braithwaite also listed guitarist John McGeoch as an inspiration.[60] Mogwai's style has easily identifiable connections to genres such as shoegaze, math rock, and art rock. Debut album Mogwai Young Team was described as "stunningly dynamic...[shifting] seamlessly from tranquil, bleakly beautiful soundscapes to brain scrambling white noise and sledgehammer riffing".[3] Douglas Wolk, writing for SPIN in 1999 said of the band: "Their compositions have gotten increasingly drawn-out and austere over time, sometimes barely more than a single arpeggiated chord or two evolving for ten minutes or more, whisperingly brutal in a way that recalls Slint more than any other band".[6] Barry Burns once stated in an interview that he and the rest of the band do not like the categorisation of post-rock because he believes it over-analyses everything.[61]
Some critics and fans missed the bluster of old, and dismissed Happy Songs as too slick, too nice. But the humorously-titled Happy Songs For Happy People poking fun at their reputation as post-rock miserablists (seriously, we could do a feature ranking their wryest song and album names, forget the music) 12 years on remains our most melodic glimpse into the Mogwai machine, and a still-chilling listen.
ZeroZeroZero is an original soundtrack album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, released on 1 May 2020 on Rock Action Records. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was released initially in a download only format via Bandcamp, and for the first week on a pay-what-you-want basis.[1] 50% of the first week's income for the record is to be donated to charities including Help Musicians and various NHS charities.[2]
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