With only a week until the official release of Mogwai’s long awaited eighth studio record ‘Rave Tapes’ comes a full album stream giving you good enough reason to invest into the sonic sounds of the Scottish six piece.

Their first single “Remurdered” that saw a release in November “pitted a grinding six and a half minute instrumental wash of sonic sounds characteristically inline with Mogwai’s previous work and akin to a sci-fi horror film soundtrack.”

The group will also play Coachella 2014 alongside electronic heavyweights The Knife, Bonobo, Woodkid and more. The bands guardian Stuart Braithwaite penned a fitting introduction to the stream sharing details on the recording process in Glasgow and Berlin and each of the bands input throughout.

“Hello people. Welcome to the stream of our forthcoming album Rave Tapes. We wrote and recorded the record last year, starting writing in January and finishing mixing just before Halloween. It was written between our scabby, rat-infested rehearsal space in the Gorbals Glasgow, mine and John’s home studios and Barry’s practice space in Berlin. Before going in to record in our Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow (neither scabby nor rat infested, thankfully) we rehearsed together for a few weeks to work on arrangements.

The album was recorded by Paul Savage who we worked on for our early single Summer as well as our first record Mogwai Young Team and our most recent Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. Paul was also a member of The Delgados, the owners of Chemikal Undergound Records who released our first two records. He’s a great guy and very good at keeping us in check. That said I’m still pissed off at him for taping over the original 22 minute take of Mogwai Fear Satan as it had too many mistakes. We could have fixed those mistakes with computers these days! Though that might be the musical equivalent of that awful digital muppet dancing scene they added to Return Of the Jedi.

The album has ten songs and features drums (both real and electronic), guitars, synthesizers, piano and singing (both vocodered and human). We hope you like it!”

Mogwais ‘Rave Tapes’ is due out January 21st on Sub Pop/Rock Action