Mogwai

Mogwai is a British post-rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. Over the years, it would become one of the most influential and most widely exposed groups on the post-rock scene, starting with its first, highly acclaimed album, Mogwai Young Team, in 1997. Largely instrumental, the band's pieces are most often built around a bass or guitar line, to which variations on the theme are gradually added. These compositions oscillate between atmospheric moods and sonic violence (their concerts generally end in complete chaos, under a shower of feedback). In their early days the group often frequented John Peel, and it has seven Peel Sessions between 1996 and 2004. Peel recorded a brief introduction for the compilation Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996–2003.