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Mogwai Recording New Album

In between shattering eardrums with notoriously loud live sets where their feet never seem to move away from their Big Muff pedals, Scottish cresecendo-rockers Mogwai are recording a new album at their newly purchased studio in Glasgow, the Castle of Doom. (Yes, really.) Tentatively titled Mr. Beast, the album is slated for a release in early 2006. Tony Doogan, who produced the Mountain Goats' Tallahassee, a handful of Hefner records, and a number of Belle & Sebastian songs (among them "Legal Man" and "Your Cover's Blown" off the BooksEP) is sharing co-production duties on Mr. Beast with Mogwai.

E-mailing Pitchfork, guitarist/vocalist Stuart Braithwaite reports that recording is one-third complete, and that the band aims to finish by the start of August. Song titles include "Friend of the Night" and "Robocop Vs. the Orange Walk". When asked how the new album will differ from their last one, Happy Songs for Happy People, Braithwaite wrote, "Don't know yet, it will probably do for flangers what Interpol did for suits." The flanger, for those of you not in the know, is an effects pedal. Like we told you, the Mogwai boys do love their gear.

As for touring, the band recently cancelled shows in St. Petersburg and Glasgow due to drummer Martin Bulloch's tendonitis, but will hit the road once he heals. Braithwaite said, "Arm permitting, we are playing Istanbul next Monday [the RockIstanbul festival on June 20, whose line-up also contains Kraftwerk, the Kills, Garbage, and Megadeth]. We also have a few Spanish festivals lined up for the autumn [and] we'll also be playing the ABC (new venue in Glasgow) at some point, rescheduled from last week." If you do happen to catch them in Turkey or Spain, definitely bring ear plugs; as this reporter learned back in 2001 at the SXSW Matador label showcase, your ears will ring for a day and a half if you don't.

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