Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix

What this video is

Released February 2011 as the lead single for Mogwai's seventh studio album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Sub Pop / Rock Action Records), 'Mexican Grand Prix' arrived at a moment when post-rock bands were navigating a wider digital media landscape. The video's subject — the faces and streets of Glasgow — grounds the internationally regarded band in their local community, functioning as a civic portrait…

Why it matters

The video is a landmark example of post-rock music video aesthetics: it rejects performance footage and narrative storytelling in favor of pure audiovisual rhythm, using the city as its instrument. The drum-synchronized rapid portraiture directly translates the track's propulsive rhythmic…

The director

Danny McConnell is a music video director associated with the Glasgow/UK independent music scene of the early 2010s. He directed multiple videos for Mogwai during the Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will campaign, including both 'Mexican Grand Prix' and…