Mogwai's fleshed-out spacey guitar arrangements are a blissful drone that always stops short of meandering. Their creative, multilayered guitar noodling often takes precedence over Stuart Braithwaite's sparse vocals. Formed in 1996, the band proceeded to release a number of largely ignored independent singles, until the release of "Angels vs. Aliens," which became a U.K. Indie Top-10 single. The band began to amass critical acclaim with the release of Mogwai Young Team in 1997 and solidified their place in the alt rock world with the hugely successful Kicking A Dead Pig in 1998.
