Mr Beast is Mogwai’s fifth album and the follow-up to 2003’s Happy Songs for Happy People.

It was recorded in the band’s new castle of doom studio in Glasgow between April and October 2005 with producer Tony Doogan. As the title suggests, this is a record of considerable size and weight – a monster creation that started out as a return to the heady, bone-crushing volume and intensity of earlier recordings, and then mutated into a many headed, many mooded beast.