Video: MOGWAI, "We're No Here", Live at First Avenue, 05/10/09

Famed Scottish post-rock quintet Mogwai were in Minneapolis to play First Avenue this Sunday, May 10th, and we were there to witness the maddening bliss. Though the band were kind enough to devote ample time to songs from each phase of their illustrious career, they focused on their recent album The Hawk Is Howling, injecting each song they touched with live intensity and jazz-like freeform emotional energy that no other post-rock band can match so confidently. Not surprisingly, the performance was a vocally quiet one, with Barry only stepping out from behind the keyboards for unaffected [...]