Song · Mogwai
“Hunted By A Freak” by Mogwai
From the album Happy Songs for Happy People (2003)
“Hunted By A Freak” by Mogwai appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 2003 on the album Happy Songs for Happy People. Its best result is #3 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #196 alternative song of 2003.
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"Hunted by a Freak" comes from Happy Songs for Happy People, the fourth album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, made in 2003 at CaVa Studios in Glasgow with Tony Doogan producing alongside the band. Barry Burns wrote it, and he's the one singing, too: the band's usual vocalist, Stuart Braithwaite, sits the whole record out.
Don't go hunting for a lyric sheet, though. A 2021 Reddit Ask Me Anything revealed that the album's songs carry no real words at all, just gibberish, so Burns's voice works as one more texture in the haze. Like everything on the record it stands on electric guitars and live drums, on an album where synthesizers keep pushing to the front, and Caroline Barber adds cello. The effect is gorgeous and faintly eerie, a lullaby with something lurking in the corner.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2003 | 50 |
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