Come On Die Young

by Mogwai

Come On Die Young cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 March 1999
  • Label: Chemikal Underground
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:07:37
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 16 ratings

Artists on this release: Luke Sutherland, Wayne Myers

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Come On Die Young' leans fully into the lethargic, somber quietude of slowcore rather than relying entirely on massive post-rock volume crescendos. The album evokes a deeply lonely, depressive, and highly atmospheric nocturnal mood.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, atmospheric, sampling, dynamic, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Punk Rock: (2:08)
  2. Cody (6:33)
  3. Helps Both Ways (4:53)
  4. Year 2000 Non-Compliant Cardia (3:25)
  5. Kappa (4:52)
  6. Waltz for Aidan (3:44)
  7. May Nothing but Happiness Come Through Your Door (8:29)
  8. Oh! How the Dogs Stack Up (2:03)
  9. Ex-Cowboy (9:09)
  10. Chocky (9:23)
  11. Christmas Steps (10:39)
  12. Punk Rock/Puff Daddy/Antichrist (2:14)

Credits

  • Mogwai - primary artist, photography by [other photographs by], songwriter [all songs by]
  • Adam Piggot - cover, design
  • Dave Fridmann - instruments [various instruments], producer [produced], engineer [engineered], mixed by, engineer, mix, producer
  • Barry Burns - performer [mogwai is]
  • Dominic Aitchison - performer [mogwai is]
  • John Cummings - performer [mogwai is]
  • Martin Bulloch - performer [mogwai is]
  • Stuart Braithwaite - performer [mogwai is]
  • Alan Dimmick - photography by [licence plate]
  • Hugh Aitchison - photography by [oil rig]
  • Paul Savage - photography by [stadium, crowd & mausoleum]
  • Iggy Pop - interviewee [speech], speech [on punk rock]
  • Richard Formby - lap steel guitar [lapsteel]
  • Geoff Allan - recorded by [lapsteel @ cava, glasgow], recorded by [violin @ cava, glasgow]
  • Luke Sutherland - violin
  • Wayne Myers - trombone

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