Tuesday, 6 Dec 2005
The Magic Numbers – The Magic Numbers
I first saw the Magic Numbers at the Vegoose music festival in Las Vegas. I was on my way to see Michael Franti and Spearhead, when I couldn’t help but be drawn into the Magic Numbers crowd. I really enjoyed the show, and wrote a little but about it here.
Their self-titled album is really easy to fall in love with.
In an age of vigorously-marketed rag-trade clothes horses, Trinidad/New York/London collective the Magic Numbers are an anomaly; a word-of-mouth phenomenon whose affable live shows have been compared to happy clappy religious experiences and whose music–an unfashionable blend of soft country pop with Fifties and Sixties inflections–is evidently more important to them than the intercession of style gurus and hairdressers.
What the critics say:
Metacritic.com – 80/100
Pitchfork – [7.6]
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You can see the rest of my 2005 favorites (so far) by clicking here.