Happy Songs for Happy People
by Mogwai
- Type: Album
- Released: 9 June 2003
- Label: [PIAS], Rock Action, [PIAS] UK, Matador, TOY鈥橲 FACTORY, Spunk!
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 41:46
- Community rating: 4.07/5 from 16 ratings
Artists on this release: John Cummings, Dominic Aitchison, Adam Nunn, Martin Bulloch, Brendan O'Hare, Stuart Braithwaite, Tony Doogan
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Marked by an increased use of electronic and ambient textures, 'Happy Songs for Happy People' balances the group's signature dynamic guitar shifts with melodic synthesizer passages and hushed vocal samples. The album presents a restrained approach to post-rock, focusing heavily on bittersweet, atmospheric compositions.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, melodic, atmospheric, minimal, crescendo
Tracklist
- Hunted by a Freak (04:16)
- Moses? I Amn't (03:01)
- Kids Will Be Skeletons (05:27)
- Killing All the Flies (04:34)
- Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep (03:05)
- Ratts of the Capital (08:25)
- Golden Porsche (02:48)
- I Know You Are but What Am I? (05:17)
- Stop Coming to My House (04:53)
Credits
- Stuart Braithwaite - Member
- Dominic Aitchison - Member
- Martin Bulloch - Member
- John Cummings - Member
- Brendan O'Hare - Member
- Uncontrollable Urge - cover
- Gavin Lawrie - engineer [assistant engineering], additional engineer
- Michael Bannister - engineer [assistant engineering], additional engineer
- Divine Inc. - layout
- Adam Nunn - mastered by, mastering
- Caroline Barber - musician [additional musician], cello
- Steinberg - programmed by [demo version of the music program cubase sx]
- Tony Doogan - recorded by, mixed by, mix, recording
- Mogwai - songwriter [songs written by], composer