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Rating: If one day, a beloved deceased appears at your door, keep calm and don't scream. Take a deep breath, think intensely about this page, quickly run to your nearest music player, hit play under the artist name (Mogwai), album ("Les Revenants), and everything will seem unrealistically much more manageable.
Our dear Scots in 2013 bring forth the second original soundtrack of their career (after the 2006 one related to the documentary on Zidane, and not considering the participation in Clint Mansell's soundtrack for "The Fountain"), a musical flow in perfect Mogwai-sound, declined in the calmest and most mysterious expression where strings and keyboards take the lead, accompanied by a minimalistic drum. The electric guitar lashes disappear, along with their classic sound walls and loud mood swings. It won't be their music shaking your souls but the images of the French TV series (very beautiful and intriguing in the first season) "Les Revenants" by director and screenwriter Fabrice Gobert, an idea developed from the 2004 film of the same name by Robin Campillo. The dead return, but they are not the classic zombies; they are beautiful (or ugly), pleasant (or unpleasant), good or bad as when they were living their lives peacefully. They are not frightening, and this scares and terrifies the viewer more than a thousand violent scenes with gallons of blood. The Mogwai are damn perfect, they don't miss a piece, creating quiet and unsettling, melancholic and ominous atmospheres where post-rock struggles to emerge.
An album to recover for all Braithwaite & co.'s fans, for those who especially appreciated them in "Come On Die Young", "Rock Action", "EP+6", for zombie enthusiasts, for those (beginners) who want to approach their music in the calmest way possible. A wonderful watercolor tinged in blue from which gray figures, faded memories, repressed tears, and removed emotions may emerge.
A minor masterpiece from one of the greatest bands of the last twenty years. Incredible as always, they never miss a beat.
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