Mogwai - "The Bad Fire" label_Unorthodox Emanations The album's front cover was

The album's front cover was designed by Mike Doud and depicted Kate Murtagh as a Statue of Liberty figure with the twin World Trade Center towers appearing as two stacks of boxes and the plate of breakfast represents Battery Park

There's an emphasis on balladry

and housed in a Stoughton jacket

" were both hits on the dance charts and in clubs

After a long series of performances at various clubs and festivals and several indie recordings throughout the 1990s

Mogwai - "The Bad Fire" label_Unorthodox Emanations The album's front cover wasThe arrival of a new Mogwai album their eleventh is cause for great celebration. The album's title, The Bad Fire, is a working class Glaswegian term for Hell. It reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through. New to the studio was American producer John Congleton, known for his work with Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rs, John Grant and pretty much everyone in between. Congleton's work can be heard on the album's three singles.