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10 reasons why Mogwai are a perfect choice for soundtracking the new Zidane movie:
1: Both are a bit serious. Mogwai’s music has managed to take an arguably ephemeral subject and paint it with high art pretensions. Zidane just doesn’t smile much.
2: Both have ethnic roots in climactically inhospitable, oil-dependent nations which have engaged in wars against their respective colonising nations. Zidane from Algeria, Mogwai from, er, Scotland.
3: Both are rather precise. Mogwai score in this instance with deliberate, circular, fingerpicked guitar figures. Zidane caresses the ball underfoot like he was stroking a guinea pig with his feet whilst wearing furry slippers.
4: Mogwai’s first album was called Mogwai Young Team. Zidane began his career in the US Saint-Henri youth team.
5: Both are a bit one paced. The soundtrack doesn’t get much above walking pace. Neither does Zidane these days. Arguably, when they are on top form, neither need to.
6: Both retaliate viciously when insulted. Zidane stuck the head in Marco Materazzi after him saying something a bit rude about Zidane’s sister had offended him greatly. Similarly, Mogwai donned “Blur are shite” t-shirts, after Blur’s shiteness had offended them greatly.
7: Both know when to keep their party tricks in the locker. Pretty as it is, Zidane doesn’t do his jump and turn roulade in every game. Here, Mogwai resist the urge to drop the volume really low, and then turn and jump on their pedals, blistering the walls with deafening noise and feedback.
8: Both have considerably less hair than they used to.
9: Both have the ability to drift away, then reappear forcefully when and where you would least expect it. Just when you think “Black Spider 2″ has faded out, it comes buzzing menacingly back in. See also Zidane’s headed goals in the 1998 World Cup final.
10: Neither Zinedine Zidane nor Mogwai are likely to play for their countries in the next World Cup.
Listen to an mp3 of “Black Spider” here.
Listen to more tracks at Mogwai’s Myspace page here
Buy the album from Boomkat here
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