Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "Characteristically, Mogwai surrender just enough melodic nuance to sustain superficial interest -- without forfeiting the abstractions...", "Over the course of 10 consistently great tracks, they coil together relentlessly compelling instrumentals that fully demonstrate the reason for their staying power...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "They still summon great surges of ravishing noise, although here the volume envelops you stealthily, like an encroaching tide.", "The album finds the fivesome in reliably epic pseudo-soundtrack mode, waxing their glacial post-rock riffs until they gleam with equal parts menace and melancholy.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Every band should mature like the Mogwai lads: still inventive, still challenging themselves and still insanely loud.", "'San Pedro' is the guitar-driven stand-out, an intense track that draws on the long-successful and now standard shoegaze formula....'Rano Pano' is the ideal atmospheric track.", "Hardcore Is Mostly Content to Refine the Band's Epic, Frequently Breathtaking Constructions.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "The album rediscovers the band's youthful brio....HARDCORE...sound defiantly re-energised, like a band starting over."
