Mogwai – Come On Die Young (Grey 2-LP Vinyl)
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Released at a moment when post-rock was fracturing into competing ideas about what instrumental music could actually do, Come On Die Young chose stillness over spectacle. Where peers were chasing volume and catharsis, the Glasgow five-piece leaned into space, strings, and a kind of slow-burn dread that rewarded patience over shock. This repress on grey vinyl gives the album a physical presence that matches its emotional weight.
24 years after it's initial release, Mogwai's iconic second album 'Come On Die Young' is to be reissued on coloured vinyl. Presented in a gatefold sleeve with original artwork, the white vinyl will come with a digital download code. Arriving in March 1999 with an album cover that referenced The Exorcist and a title scalped from a well-known Glasgow gang slogan, you'd have expected Mogwai's 'Come On Die Young' to be an apocalypse-harbouring, pre-millennial assault on the senses. Instead, we were treated to a darkly elegiac - surprisingly restrained - response to the aural fireworks of their 'Young Team' debut from two years earlier.
Tracklist:
- Punk Rock:
- Cody
- Helps Both Ways
- Year 2000 Non-Compliant Cardia
- Kappa
- Waltz for Aidan
- May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door
- Oh! How the Dogs Stack Up
- Ex-Cowboy
- Chocky
- Christmas Steps
- Punk Rock/Puff Daddy/Antichrist
UPC: 5063176129017
Label: Chemikal Underground
Release Date: 10.30.26
Format: LP Vinyl