Atomic (Mogwai album)

Atomic
An orange false color image of the sun with the title of the album.
Soundtrack album by
Mogwai
Released1 April 2016
StudioCastle of Doom, Glasgow
Length48:37
LabelRock Action
ProducerTony Doogan
Mogwai chronology
Central Belters
(2015) 		Atomic
(2016) 		Every Country's Sun
(2017)
Singles from Atomic
  1. "U-235"
    Released: 12 January 2016
  2. "Ether"
    Released: 8 February 2016
  3. "Bitterness Centrifuge"
    Released: 21 March 2016

Atomic is an original soundtrack album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, released on 1 April 2016 on Rock Action Records.[1][2]

The music was originally composed for Mark Cousins' documentary Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise.[3]

The album features entirely instrumental music from start to finish. The song titles allude to atomic bombs such as Little Boy and Tzar Bomba as well as scientific or military objects and concepts connected with nuclear power such as SCRAM, Uranium-235 and Pripyat, the abandoned city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

It is the first Mogwai album to not feature guitarist John Cummings, who left the band in 2015.

  1. ^ Gordon, Jeremy (12 January 2016). "Mogwai Announce New Album Atomic, Share "U-235"". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  2. ^ Geslani, Michelle (12 January 2016). "Mogwai announce new album, Atomic, share "U-235"". Consequence of Sound.
  3. ^ Cousins, Mark. "BBC Storyville: Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise".