Young Team

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Young Team
Young Team cover
Studio album by Mogwai
Released 21 October 1997 (USA)
27 October 1997 (UK)
Recorded MCM Studios
Hamilton, Scotland Flag of Scotland
Genre Post-rock
Length 64:31
Label Chemikal Underground (UK)
Chem018CD

Jetset (USA)
TWA07CD
Producer(s) Paul Savage
Professional reviews
Mogwai chronology
Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997)
(1997)		 Young Team
(1997)		 Kicking a Dead Pig
(1998)


Young Team (also known as Mogwai Young Team) is the debut studio album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, released by Chemikal Underground on 27 October 1997.

Contents

[edit] Overview

Young Team features extreme dynamic contrast between quiet and loud, a technique which Mogwai are well known for. It features limited instrumentation, consisting mainly of guitar, bass, percussion, and piano, although occasionally, other instruments can be heard throughout the album, such as glockenspiel on "Tracy" and flute on "Mogwai Fear Satan".

When questioned about his opinion on Young Team, Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite has said:

“ The album was a total disaster. We were young and naïve and had too little time. We should have said; "No, the record isn't done until six months later." Instead, we sat and mixed whole nights and felt bad. We didn't talk to each other. When the album was released, we just wanted to forget everything. We were certain that all critics would pan it, honestly. After that, we understood that we had think stuff over that we recorded.[1] ”

Mogwai drummer Martin Bulloch has also given his thoughts on the album:

“ The recording of Young Team was fucked up. There were quite a lot of sketches going on. I think the whole of the first LP is angry. It was the mood of the whole thing - there was a lot of anger about.[2] ”

[edit] Album title

The "MYT" logo
The "MYT" logo

Mogwai guitarist John Cummings explains the source of the album title

“ When you're young, there are always gangs; "Oh, you can't go up there because there's this gang hanging about." None of us really were part of all that, but it's what we went to school with and just remembering the things that we used to see greatly amuses us. When we went on tour before we recorded the first album, we were getting quite silly. That's when we made up all our alternate names. And we decided that we were Mogwai Young Team: a gang. We got quite excited by a kind of tour madness and started writing "MYT" and we got a bit carried away.[3] ”

[edit] Trivia

  • The Japanese sign on the cover reads "Fuji Bank". The picture was taken and inverted by Brendan O'Hare.
  • The "MYT" logo found inside the cover was created by Neale Smith. Mogwai members John Cummings and Dominic Aitchison both have tattoos of this logo on their inner left arm and neck, respectively
  • It is listed as #97 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s [4].

[edit] Track listing

  • All tracks written by Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, and John Cummings.
  1. "Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home" – 5:57
  2. "Like Herod" – 11:41
  3. "Katrien" – 5:24
  4. "Radar Maker" – 1:35
  5. "Tracy" – 7:19
  6. "Summer (Priority Version)" – 3:28
  7. "With Portfolio" – 3:10
  8. "R U Still in 2 It?" – 7:20
  9. "A Cheery Wave From Stranded Youngsters" – 2:18
  10. "Mogwai Fear Satan" – 16:19

[edit] Personnel

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Sonic magazine Interview with Stuart Braithwaite, 2001
  2. ^ Ink Blot magazine Interview with Martin Bulloch, 1999
  3. ^ Amazon.co.uk Interview with John Cummings, 1999
  4. ^ Pitchfork Media:Top 100 Albums of the 1990s
Mogwai
Stuart Braithwaite | Dominic Aitchison | Martin Bulloch | John Cummings | Barry Burns
Discography
Albums: Young Team | Come on Die Young | Rock Action | Happy Songs for Happy People | Mr. Beast
Compilations: Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997) | Kicking a Dead Pig | EP+6 | Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003 | Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
EPs: 4 Satin | No Education = No Future (Fuck the Curfew) | Mogwai:EP | Travels in Constants | U.S. Tour EP | UK/European Tour EP | Travel Is Dangerous
Singles: "Tuner"/"Lower" | "Angels vs Aliens" | "Ithica 27ø9"/"Summer" | "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 1"/"New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 2" | "Club Beatroot, Part 4" | "Do The Rock Boogaloo" | "My Father, My King" | "Friend of the Night" | "Black Spider"
Related articles
Rock Action Records | The Recording of Mr. Beast | Castle of Doom Studios | Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle | Chemikal Underground
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