Damn, discovering Santaolallo wrote *that* title theme is really scrumptious icing on a fucking good cake, comrades. The sound he gets out of those strings is skeletal and kinda skin-tingling. Fuck yeah. Mogwai are a perennial favorite, favorite band. Pal opened for them once and one Mogwai stayed out with us after the pubs and we went to Club Neo. No one was there, except for this old-school looking rivethead who guarded the dancefloor like an alpha goat. Another old pal, whose formative Goth of the Dead Can Dance/Cure variety, was delicately making way towards a girl that I could tell he thought was pretty, and Alpha Goat backed him down pretty good. He danced away like in a fluttery motion. Mogwai stayed at the bar chatting with the music pal. Great fucking show and night. Looking forward to this LP intently.