The Magic Gang Release ‘Alright’ Debut Album
The Magic Gang Release ‘Alright’ Debut Album
Brighton
quartet The Magic Gang release their debut album and it’s ‘Alright’.
Self-titled,
and a combination of months of single releases- including soppy favourite, ‘Alright’-
the album is good but a tad underwhelming. This is frustrating from The Magic
Gang and the lack of dramatic departure from anything we have been hearing from
them since they began is pretty much what this entire album is.
However, there
are a handful of technical advances within the production that have removed
them from the synthy sound and has progressed them into sounding more like a
band in a studio as opposed to a band through a computer. Yay!
With a youthful innocence behind them, they sing about (mainly) heartbreak, girls and all other unoriginal topics but their tracks are as bright and flavoured as Mac Demarco’s. Opener, ‘Oh Saki’ is splashy, easy-listening and harmless (like the whole album). But with a wealth of followers highly anticipating this debut, perhaps the expectation was too high. However, there is nothing remarkably exciting about the final-outcome.
With a youthful innocence behind them, they sing about (mainly) heartbreak, girls and all other unoriginal topics but their tracks are as bright and flavoured as Mac Demarco’s. Opener, ‘Oh Saki’ is splashy, easy-listening and harmless (like the whole album). But with a wealth of followers highly anticipating this debut, perhaps the expectation was too high. However, there is nothing remarkably exciting about the final-outcome.
The optimistic
and bubbly rhythms fill the album with colour and it can’t go unnoticed how
more British sounding this album is in comparison to their singles. Not only due
to the true, indie rhythms but the change in pronunciation throughout songs
such as, ‘All This Way’. However, tracks, ‘Getting Along’ and ‘Your Love’ show a
true British sound that fits right into the cannon that is going to fire The
Magic Gang into the success they deserve.
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