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2/27/2012

Magicks - Maya (2010)



/Experimental indie, New Weird America, Indie dance, Glo-fi, Shoegazetronica, Avant-pop, Chillwave, Dream pop, Freak folk, Post-psychedelic electronica/

Comment
: Jason Magicks shows up his muscles throughout this 13-piece release (there is a hidden track as well - a cover version of Beach House`s Walk In The Dark). There is all what can be considered important having come out from the underground scenes of the USA in the course of the previous decade. More concretely, freak/free folk-ish twangs and jubilant vocal whiffs are mixed up with glo-fi/electronic shoegaze-ish progressions. For instance, Moving Right Along, and Chillin All Along are killer progressions (and of course, the abovementioned cover version with a mesmerizing, dance-appealed dimension). This Chicago-based one-man-project shares equally pleasure and challenge to the modern ear. Ohterwise, it is an instance of zeigeist music which used to have potential to outreach temporal borders toward the past and future.