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Mogwai: Central Belters (Rock Action)

Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, December 2015

DURING THEIR RISE to prominence, very few onlookers would have predicted that post-rock upstarts Mogwai would have the staying power to be receiving the 20th. Anniversary anthology treatment. A bunch of disillusioned teenagers with a predilection for prankster-ish behaviour and bold statements, they couldn't have been further from their moribund post-rock peers.

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