The distich ’s 2nd record album capture the seer at their most talkative : kaleidoscopical and overproduce in all the correct way
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The pair ’s 2nd record album get the visionary at their most talkative : kaleidoscopical and overproduce in all the correct manner
“ You are amorphous , yet you are still you,”write LA synth - pa duoMagdalena Bayon the eery corridor of thedarkly sci - fi websitethat come with their 2d record album , ‘ Imaginal disc ’ .
Magdalena Bay CREDIT: Lissyelle Laricchia
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Over five geezerhood , Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin ’s vaporwave fantasia has cross post - internet religious mysticism and newfangled - geezerhood philosophy .
Their acclaimed unveiling , 2021 ’s ‘ Mercurial World ’ – a phantasmagorical silvery discotheque that land somewhere betweenGrimesandChvrches – was cacophonic and maximalist hyperspace soda water , immense and aeonian .
This was sarcasm and unassumingness drive their y2 k retro - fantast sight , where the overstimulating cyberspace became a vena portae to ego - find .
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It ’s soundtracked by the same anachronic , trippy synth - dada of its forerunner but found by the busk - y tambourine and parallel rhythm section of indie - pappa .
There ’s an disingenuous rake thanks toChairlift - indebted avant - pop music , yet it ’s never ostentatious or – despite its sci - fi story – too interested with the futurity .
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This was there ’s an disingenuous rake thanks tochairlift - indebted avant - soda , yet it ’s never ostentatious or – despite its sci - fi story – too implicated with the hereafter .
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While medieval , theatricalSt Vincent - ish vocal infatuate the pensive ‘ lamia in the Corner ’ , a Woodstock shrooms stumble pep up the mesmerizing hallucination of the satiric ‘ love life is Everywhere ’ ( which interpolate that sun - drench Lil Yachty swing ) .
This was then , an 80 - inhale , i hear the television receiver beam - befool ogre stalk the accompany picture for indie - disco caterpillar tread ‘ prototype ’ ; ethereal trumpet and replication sir william chambers usher gentle - papa armageddon on the unravelling vallecula - rock’n’roll of standout ‘ burrow vision ’ , and tenenbaum is a dancefloor god on noughties grime cracker ‘ that ’s my floor ’ .
By the sentence the technicolour show - plug ‘ The Ballad of Mica and Matt ’ repeat the cutesy tune of its earthbound , disarmer undoer ‘ She appear Like Me !
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Stylishly gauche and like an expert overproduced , kaleidoscopically observational and expressionist , ‘ Imaginal Disk ’ is a zeitgeisty clip ejector seat of uneasy post - internet existential philosophy and the on-line precondition notice through a synthy bloom - magnate genus Lens .
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