MOGWAI - Young Team Reissue (deluxe edition)

in the 10 years or so since it first came out, Young Team has remained such a monolithic presence in what the taxonomically lazy have taken to calling "post-rock" that it hardly seems necessary it to talk about its influence.
it encompasses, in a little over an hour, pretty much everything that the genre aspired to while it was crystallizing around the turn of the century: menace and delicacy, abruptness and linearity, mystery and well-tempered wankery.
the more appealing exercise occasioned by this kind of reissue (that is, a reissue of an album that never disappeared, but whose original sound quality left some room for improvement) is to think about where it all came from.
in his notes to the new version, Keith Cameron explains that Mogwai “represented an antidote to the stultification of rock ’n’ roll” in the mid-90's, particularly the waning interest of britpop.
and that’s a little much, considering that Radiohead’s OK Computer and Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One came out the same year: as a new band Mogwai showed great and adaptable promise, but it wasn’t so revolutionary, at least in the sense of conscious opposition, as it’s tempting to recall.
here they are, there they were.

ARTIST: Mogwai
TITLE: Young Team Reissue (deluxe edition)
LABEL: Matador
GENRE: Post-Rock
TIME: 111:10 min
SIZE: 134,44 MB
BITRATE: VBR 188kbps avg
RIP DATE: Jun, 07-2008
RELEASE DATE: May, 27-2008
WEBSITE: www.mogwai.co.uk

TRACKLIST:
CD01
01. Yes, I'm a Long Way from Home [05:57]
02. Like Herod [11:40]
03. Katrien [05:24]
04. Radar Maker [01:35]
05. Tracy [07:20]
06. Summer (priority version) [03:28]
07. With Portfolio [03:11]
08. R U Still in 2 It [07:21]
09. Cherry Wave from Stranded Youngsters [02:19]
10. Mogwai Fear Satan [16:20]
CD02
01. Young Face Gone Wrong [02:58]
02. I Don't Know What to Say [01:15]
03. I Can't Remember [03:14]
04. Honey [04:18]
05. Katrien (live) [05:31]
06. R U Still in 2 It (live) [08:01]
07. Like Herod (live) [07:53]
08. Summer (live) [02:59]
09. Mogwai Fear Satan + Ferdi Tayfur (live) [10:26]