tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779557.post-48217976039643281362008-05-12T16:00:00.000-07:002008-05-12T16:08:05.540-07:00<strong>Howling bells</strong><br /><br />Apparently there's a new Mogwai album imminent, called The Hawk Is Howling. Who knew? Well, apart from anyone who reads the music press and listens to the radio...<br /><br />I've got slightly mixed feelings about the prospect. Mr Beast was in many ways their most accomplished record to date, but it didn't translate particularly well live - or, at least, the last time I saw them, <a href="http://silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2007/07/swsl-supersonic-2007-diary-three-weeks.html">headlining last year's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham</a>, they were by their own standards rather flat and listless. That won't stop me buying the album, though.<br /><br />And just when I'd taken a look at my bank balance from behind the back of the metaphorical sofa and decided I could only really stretch to Blood Red Shoes' debut, the Efterklang album and perhaps the new Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan collaboration, too...Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03008553685046831301noreply@blogger.com