INTERVIEWSHear Mogwai's Full, Surprisingly Low-Key 'Les Revenants' Soundtrack Album

Post-rockers latest arrives February 26 on Sub Pop

Mogwai have amassed their considerable cult with the intense, sprawling post-rock instrumentals of 2011's Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will and 1997's landmark debut Young Team. But the Scottish band has applied its knack for desolate atmospheres to soundtracks a couple of times before, including scoring soccer biopic Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.

Mogwai's latest scoring work, for French TV thriller Les Revenants, arrives with the terrifying premise that children killed in a bus crash keep coming back to life without knowing they've died, so the moody keyboards and glinting guitars of the soundtrack (out February 26 via Sub Pop) are a bit less tempestuous than might be expected. Then, on penultimate gospel cover "What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?," the band known for its instrumentals offers warmly elegiac vocals, for a powerful track that solidifies the Glaswegians' long-running spiritual connection to Minnesota-bsaed Low, whose Jeff Tweedy-produced 2013 tracks have a similarly rootsy undercurrent. Hardcore might not ever die, but Mogwai have found grace.

• 02:24PlayMogwai — Hungry Face
• 02:18PlayMogwai — Jaguar
• 04:02PlayMogwai — The Huts
• 03:29PlayMogwai — Kill Jester
• 04:37PlayMogwai — This Messiah Needs Watching
• 01:39PlayMogwai — Whisky Time
• 03:49PlayMogwai — Special N
• 03:40PlayMogwai — Relative Hysteria
• 03:22PlayMogwai — Fridge Magic
• 04:01PlayMogwai — Portugal
• 03:21PlayMogwai — Eagle Tax
• 02:48PlayMogwai — Modern
• 05:52PlayMogwai — What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
• 04:41PlayMogwai — Wizard Motor