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Mogwai are Scottish and most of their songs start off kinda quiet and get real loud at the end.

Precisely all of those things could be also said about the Twilight Sad. (But the Twilight Sad do a whole lot more singing.)

Perhaps this very line of thought went through the minds of the veteran post-rockers, who have invited their more vocally emotive countrymen to open for them on the European leg of their tour, taking place in late October and November.

Mogwai will have plenty of wares to peddle on the road. The Roky Erickson-boosted EP Batcat is out September 8 in the UK from PIAS/Wall of Sound and September 9 in the U.S. from Matador. Full-length The Hawk Is Howling is out September 22 in the UK and September 23 in the U.S. A special CD/DVD combo edition of The Hawk Is Howling is due on the same date, with the visual delights comprised of the recently Forkcasted "Batcat" video, an animated clip for the same song, and a film about Mogwai by Vincent Moon and Teresa Eggers.



Mogwai:

08-30 Utrecht, Netherlands - De Beschaving Festival
08-31 Antwerp, Belgium - Rivierenhof
09-03 Portland, OR - Music Fest NW
09-04 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo #
09-05 Victoria, British Columbia - Element #
09-06 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore #
09-08 San Francisco, CA - Grand Ballroom #
09-09 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern #
09-10 Tucson, AZ - Rialto #
09-12 Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q #
09-13 Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre #
09-15 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse #
09-16 Richmond, VA - The National #
09-17 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #
09-18 New York, NY - Terminal 5 #
09-19 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom #
09-21 Monticello, NY - Kutshers Country Club (ATP New York) #
09-22 Boston, MA - Wilbur Theatre #
09-23 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis #
09-25 Pontiac, MI - Crofoot #
09-26 Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre #
09-27 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue #
10-21 Edinburgh, Scotland - Corn Exchange #!
10-23 Manchester, England - Academy #!
10-24 London, England - Hammersmith Apollo #!
10-27 Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rockhal ^
10-28 Paris, France – Casino de Paris ^
10-29 Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall ^
11-02 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega ^
11-03 Lund, Sweden – Mejeriet ^
11-04 Stockholm, Sweden – Cirkus ^
11-06 Berlin, Germany – Huxleys ^
11-08 Hamburg, Germany – Grosse Freiheit ^ 
11-10 Frankfurt, Germany – Mousonturm ^
11-11 Dresden, Germany – Alter Schlachthof ^
11-12 Munich, Germany – Backstage-Werk ^
11-13 Vienna, Austria – Wuk ^
11-17 Fribourg, Switzerland – Fri Son ^
11-18 Zurich, Switzerland – Rote Fabrik ^

* performing Young Team
# with Fuck Buttons
! with Errors
^ with the Twilight Sad