Mogwai Young Team
The debut album, ten pieces from a band that had written three songs when it went into the studio.
Mogwai, 1997
- Released
- October 21, 1997
- Recorded
- Summer 1997
- Studio
- MCM Studios, Hamilton
- Label
- Chemikal Underground
- Producer
- Paul Savage, Andy Miller
- Length
- 64:31
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Braithwaite played guitar and glockenspiel, Aitchison bass, Bulloch drums, Cummings guitar and O'Hare piano and guitar, with guests Barry Burns, Mari Myren, Aidan Moffat on "R U Still in 2 It" and Shona Brown on flute. The cover is Brendan O'Hare's photograph of a Fuji Bank branch in Shibuya, Tokyo, inverted. It reached number 75 in the United Kingdom and number ten on the indie chart, sold more than 60,000 copies in the UK and was certified silver, and charted again in Scotland at number three in 2023.
AllMusic gave it four and a half stars, NME 9 out of 10 and Record Collector five stars; Pitchfork gave it 9.7 in 1999 and 9.2 in 2008, and placed it 97th on its list of the best albums of the 1990s. The Guardian gave it three. It was reissued on May 26, 2008 with a bonus disc and on February 10, 2023 in remastered form.
Track listing
- Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home5:57
- Like Herod11:41
- Katrien5:24
- Radar Maker1:35
- Tracy7:19
- Summer (Priority Version)3:28
- With Portfolio3:10
- R U Still in 2 It7:20
- A Cheery Wave from Stranded Youngsters2:18
- Mogwai Fear Satan16:19
Personnel
- Stuart Braithwaite guitar, glockenspiel
- Dominic Aitchison bass
- Martin Bulloch drums
- John Cummings guitar
- Brendan O'Hare piano, guitar
- Aidan Moffat vocals on R U Still in 2 It
Where to go next
Reference
- Mogwai Young Team on Wikipedia Tracklist, personnel and reissues.
Interviews
- The Line of Best Fit: twenty years of Mogwai Braithwaite on the early records.
Sources
- Mogwai Young Team, Wikipedia
- From Young Team to Atomic: Stuart Braithwaite on twenty years of Mogwai, The Line of Best Fit (2016-04-11)