LISTEN: Mogwai announce ninth album, share single 'Coolverine'

Glasgow post-rock pioneers Mogwai have announced their ninth studio album, releasing its opening song today.

Set for release on 1 September on their own Rock Action label, Every Country’s Sun is their first album since 2014’s Rave Tapes.

First released from the album is opener ‘Coolverine,’ which you can hear below:

The albums sees them reunite with producer Dave Fridmann, known for working on fan-favourite album Come On Die Young in 1999, and was recorded at Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York.

Longtime fans will be excited to hear that the band promise the record will include “church organs as chariots of existential fire, tremulous, foreboding bleeping – possibly from a dying android,” and, perhaps most intriguingly, a “head-spinning disco-dream double-helix echoing New Order and The Flaming Lips” entitled ‘Party In The Dark’ - which they say is the “most fully realised art-pop sing-along of their history.”

The record will be backed by a massive tour, which will see the band visit Australia and the US and takes in headliners at Wales' Festival No.6 and a huge hometown arena show at Glasgow's SSE Hydro. No Irish dates yet, but keep your eyes peeled.