Mr Beast (album)

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Mr Beast
Mr beast cover.jpg
Studio album by
Mogwai
Released6 March 2006 (2006-03-06)
RecordedApril–October 2005
Studio Castle of Doom (Glasgow, Scotland)
Genre Post-rock, noise rock, space rock [1]
Length43:07
Language
Label Play It Again Sam, Matador
Producer Tony Doogan, Mogwai
Mogwai chronology
Happy Songs for Happy People
(2003)		Mr Beast
(2006)		 Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (soundtrack)
(2006)
Singles from Mr Beast
  1. "Friend of the Night"
    Released: 30 January 2006
  2. "Travel Is Dangerous"
    Released: 26 June 2006 (EP)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]
NME 9/10 [7]
Pitchfork Media 6.8/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rock Sound 8/10 [10]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]

Mr Beast, released in 2006, is the fifth studio album by Scottish post-rock group Mogwai.

Contents

Overview

The album Mr Beast was released on 6 March 2006 in the UK and 7 March 2006 in the United States, in double LP vinyl format, a regular CD jewel case edition and limited deluxe edition package that comes with both the album on CD and a DVD documenting the recording process entitled The Recording of Mr Beast . The album has been described by Creation Records head Alan McGee as

...probably the best art rock album I've been involved with since Loveless . In fact, it's possibly better than Loveless. [12]

referring to the influential 1991 album by My Bloody Valentine. Drummer Martin Bulloch describes it as

...the best record we've made since Mogwai Young Team . [13]

The album's title stemmed from an incident where Barry Burns and Dominic Aitchison landed in Florida to start a tour with The Cure in 2005, when they saw a taxi driver standing outside the airport holding a sign that said "Mr. and Mrs. Beast" which, after a 10-hour flight, was "funnier than life itself". [9]

Artwork

The cover artwork for Mr Beast is a painting by Amanda Church entitled "Milkbar", [14] and the accompanying booklet contains other works from her, all of a similar style. In addition, the Mogwai Young Team logo is displayed on the spine of the deluxe edition release, with a silhouette of Jesus on the cross visible within the logo.

Track listing

All songs were written by Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, John Cummings, and Barry Burns. [ citation needed ] Lyrics on "I Chose Horses" written by Envy vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa.

No.TitleLength
1."Auto Rock"4:18
2."Glasgow Mega-Snake"3:35
3."Acid Food"3:40
4."Travel Is Dangerous"4:01
5."Team Handed"3:58
6."Friend of the Night"5:30
7."Emergency Trap"3:31
8."Folk Death 95"3:34
9."I Chose Horses"5:13
10."We're No Here"5:39
Total length:43:07
Japanese edition bonus track (2006)
No.TitleLength
11."1% Of Monster"3:48
Total length:46:55

Personnel

Mogwai

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Mr Beast
Chart (2006)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [15] 95
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16] 21
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [17] 57
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [18] 97
French Albums (SNEP) [19] 94
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 65
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [21] 38
Scottish Albums (OCC) [22] 17
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] 87
UK Albums (OCC) [24] 31
US Billboard 200 [25] 128

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