| Majical Cloudz / Impersonator |
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| Album: | Impersonator | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Majical Cloudz | Added: | Jun 2013 | |
| Label: | Matador Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-10-17 | Pull Date: | 2013-12-19 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 22 | Dec 8 | Nov 3 | Oct 27 | Oct 20 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 02, 2016: | All Passion No Technique Childhood's End | 4. | Dec 04, 2013: | Meow After Midnight This Is Magic | |
| 2. | May 04, 2015: | Shytown Mister | 5. | Oct 27, 2013: | Sound Art Impersonator | |
| 3. | Dec 19, 2013: | Meow After Midnight Silver Rings | 6. | Oct 23, 2013: | Meow After Midnight Impersonator |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2013-10-13 | ||
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Majical Cloudz is Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto, and the songs they showcase here are minimal, soothing, repetitive, self-aware, and yet thoroughly emotive and vulnerable. This project seems like an attempt to lower the walls between artist and listener, to create an intimate musical conversation between the two. Whether or not they always succeed, this is moving stuff. Favorites: 2, 3, 6, 7, 10. No FCCs. 1. (3:10)—Slow, almost incantatory. Vocal loops. “I’m a liar, I say I make music.” 2. *(4:26)—Medium-slow, soft, plodding. Feels like a hymn. 3. *(3:49)—Mid-tempo. The “hit.” Swelling synth strings, skittering beat, really catchy chorus. Hints of Chris Isaak? 4. (4:11)—Slow. Romantic, melancholy. “I’m on stage for you.” 5. (4:13)—Medium-fast. Anxious, danceable but light. 6. *(3:44)—Slow. Trippy, creepy, mournful. 7. *(5:15)—Slow, beatless, chilling, heartbreaking. Welsh jumps into his upper vocal register. “I don’t think about dying alone.” 8. (2:51)—Slow, dreamy. “Illusion, illusion, illusion, illusion.” 9. (3:22)—Slow. Begins with chords on a synth piano, builds slowly. 10. *(3:20)—Slow, beatless. The desolate, dramatic closer. “I don’t want to turn to the Bible.” Ends suddenly. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Impersonator | 6. | Turns Turns Turns | |||
| 2. | This Is Magic | 7. | Silver Rings | |||
| 3. | Childhood's End | 8. | Illusion | |||
| 4. | I Do Sing For You | 9. | Bugs Don't Buzz | |||
| 5. | Mister | 10. | Notebook |