Mercurial World (Coloured Viny LP) Soul Funk & DiscoLimited red vinyl. 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
while Maker and Campos also lend their own vocals to some tracks
Upside Down is unusual in that it includes a second lead vocalist
they became the prime movers of British psychedelia
A Beard of Stars
and Shana Jenson (Muldrow) and Georgia's partner Dudley Perkins crop up on You Can Always Count On Me (a cover of the Gap Band classic) and These Are The Things I Like About You
Tracks include the modern parables 'Onfa Nkosi Hwee' warning against arrogance and 'Odo Ankasa' about the value of real love and trust as well as a great new cover of Thomas' Afro-disco favourite 'Yamona'
soulful voice that sometimes comes across like a more nimble version of Roland Gift's falsetto
arguably blueprinted on this album
After gaining fame as Miss Western Nigeria 1957
where both Projector and Clear evoke early rave records
now joins the auspicious Classic Music Company catalogue
but Andrew was someone who did things entirely on his own terms
