Mogwai share synth-led new single ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’

Mogwai have today shared ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’, the latest single to be lifted from their forthcoming eleventh album ‘The Bad Fire’ (due out on 24th January via Rock Action Records).

The viscerally-titled new cut follows last September’s ‘God Gets You Back’ and its follow-up ‘Lion Rumpus’, making it our third taste of what to expect from the project as a whole. Characterised by vocoded vocals and stirring synths, ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’ is testament to ‘The Bad Fire”s overarching concept - one of navigating the significant personal challenges that followed 2021’s chart-topping ‘As The Love Continues’ by drawing on a full spectrum of emotion. 

Speaking about the track, the band’sStuart Braithwaite has shared that it was “written in Brooklyn when I was staying at Alex Kapranos’s house in autumn 2023. In my head it sounds like a cross between ABBA, swervedriver and Kraftwerk, though that might be ludicrous. It originally has a straight vocal but we ended up vocoding it on the last day of recording. It’s pretty different and I’m really happy with how it turned out.”

Watch the Agnes Haus-directed video for ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’ and check out ‘The Bad Fire”s full tracklist below.