Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World [Orchid Vinyl]

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: LUM030LP7
Barcode: 734038994610
Release Date: 06 Dec 2024
Genre: Indie Pop

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 Women’s 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. On October 8th, Magdalena Bay will release their debut full-length LP, 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 “what ifs” that make up the human experience.

Tracklisting
1. The End
2. Halfway
3. Mercurial World
4. Hysterical Us
5. Prophecy
6. Dawning of the Season
7. Secrets (Your Fire)
8. Follow The Leader
9. You Lose!
10. Domino
11. Something For 2
12. Dreamcatching
13. The Beginning
14. Chaeri