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Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World (LP)

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Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World (LP) Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World (LP) Few artists are at once artful and savvy enough to transcend the endless scroll, but over the past 18 months, LA-based indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay have used social platforms to dispatch their music, and what you might call their philosophy, in hypnotic, ephemeral bursts. A long trip through their feeds produces music videos in miniature, irreverent pontifications on the state of the music industry delivered via home video VHS aesthetics, and existential meditations on everything from International Womenâs Day to the clone craze of the early aughts to the indefinite lifespan of plants. To Mica Tenenbaum and Matt Lewin, reality can be unmade, manipulated beyond all recognition; their project is as much musical as it is an experiment in pop persona and visual aesthetics. Mercurial World, via Luminelle. Entirely written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by the duo, Mercurial World proposes an abstract theory of time and explores the staggering Ówhat ifsÝ that make up the human experience. Approaching reality as a construct allows Magdalena Bay to enact their own, one that is committed to nothing but expanding the possible. Even the albumâs sequencing hints at the eternal: the first track is titled ÓThe End,Ý the last is ÓThe Beginning,Ý forming a perfect loop when you listen to it straight through. ÓMatt, Matt, wake up!Ý Tenenbaum whispers on the introductory track. ÓI was thinking about how thereâs no true end to anything/ Everything comes from and goes to the same place: NOWHERE.Ý Mercurial World has a lot of outsized themes on it, like destiny, death, and doing the impossible,Ý Tenenbaum explains. ÓItâs not exactly a concept album, but we love prog-rock, so we love a concept.Ý Magdalena Bay offer the listener a prismatic experience, one that is built on a desire to simply believe in something beyond the finitude of our lives. Itâs not religion, itâs not spirituality; itâs this music, this moment. The album closes with ÓThe Beginning,Ý a discotheque ready call-back to ÓThe EndÝ that momentarily resolves all of Magdalena Bayâs late-night philosophical questions. ÓMatt, go back to sleep. I think Iâve finally got it all figured out,Ý Tenenbaum whispers. ÓLike a butterfly floating in amber, we've made this moment eternal.Ý TRACKLISTING SIDE A 1. The End 2. Mercurial World 3. Dawning of the Season 4. Secrets (Your Fire) 5. You Lose! 6. Something For 2 7. Chaeri SIDE B 1. Halfway 2. Hysterical Us 3. Prophecy 4. Follow The Leader 5. Domino 6. Dreamcatching 7. The Beginning Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World (LP) Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World (LP) Few artists are at once artful and savvy enough to transcend the endless scroll, but over the past 18 months, LA-based indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay have uséd social platforms to dispatch their music, and what you might call their philosophy, in hypnotic, ephemeral bursts. A long trip through their feeds produces music videos in miniature, irreverent pontifications on the state of the music industry delivered via home video VHS aesthetics, and existential meditations on everything from International Womenâs Day to the clone craze of the early aughts to the indefinite lifespan of plants. To Mica Tenenbaum and Matt Lewin, reality can be unmade, manipulated beyond all recognition; their project is as much musical as it is an experiment in pop persona and visual aesthetics. Mercurial World, via Luminelle. Entirely written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by the duo, Mercurial World proposes an abstract theory of time and explores the staggering Ówhat ifsÝ that make up the human experience. Approaching reality as a construct allows Magdalena Bay to enact their own, one that is committed to nothing but expanding the possible. Even the albumâs sequencing hints at the eternal: the first track is titled ÓThe End,Ý the last is ÓThe Beginning,Ý forming a perfect loop when you listen to it straight through. ÓMatt, Matt, wake up!Ý Tenenbaum whispers on the introductory track. ÓI was thinking about how thereâs no true end to anything/ Everything comes from and goes to the same place: NOWHERE.Ý Mercurial World has a lot of outsized themes on it, like destiny, death, and doing the impossible,Ý Tenenbaum explains. ÓItâs not exactly a concept album, but we love prog-rock, so we love a concept.Ý Magdalena Bay offer the listener a prismatic experience, one that is built on a desire to simply believe in something beyond the finitude of our lives. Itâs not religion, itâs not spirituality; itâs this music, this moment. The album closes with ÓThe Beginning,Ý a discotheque ready call-back to ÓThe EndÝ that momentarily resolves all of Magdalena Bayâs late-night philosophical questions. ÓMatt, go back to sleep. I think Iâve finally got it all figured out,Ý Tenenbaum whispers. ÓLike a butterfly floating in amber, we've made this moment eternal.Ý TRACKLISTING SIDE A 1. The End 2. Mercurial World 3. Dawning of the Season 4. Secrets (Your Fire) 5. You Lose! 6. Something For 2 7. Chaeri SIDE B 1. Halfway 2. Hysterical Us 3. Prophecy 4. Follow The Leader 5. Domino 6. Dreamcatching 7. The Beginning
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