Auto Rock

Artist: Mogwai

Album: Mr. Beast

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Song Notes: The song is built around a piano riff played by Barry Burns, and march-like drums, which slowly builds in volume and intensity. It was, at one point, used as a set opener by Mogwai on their 2006 tour.

Reviews: “Auto-Rock” runs over four minutes, at which point it ceases to be a baiting introduction and morphs into a placid cinema that all but holds the audience’s hand through the first few minutes of the album. 

"Auto Rock" is sublime, but it is essentially a better executed version of "Moses, I Amn't" from Happy Songs from Happy People, itself a better executed version of the Rock Action cut "Sine Wave."