It's been a whole decade since LA's Magic Wands released their first single, and since then the band has managed to always come up with mighty impressive material. Following 2012's Aloha Moon and Jupiter from 2016, the band has just put out their third full length, Abrakadabra, on Casa Del Punte Discos.

The excellent dreampop duo comprised of Dexy Valentine (vocals and guitar) and Chris Valentine (lead guitar and vocals) have supported elite acts such as The Black Keys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Raconteurs, The Kills and The Horrors, they have seen their songs remixed by The XX and Crystal Fighters, and they've been featured in over fifty major TV shows, movies, and commercials around the world.

The lushness in Magic Wand's sound is firmly grounded on shoegaze and dreampop, while tints of post punk vigor and the band's overall punk poise contribute to a very rich, compelling outcome, produced to absolute perfection by the duo themselves, alongside Phil Galloni, and mastered by Grammy winner, Tim Young (The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Queen).

DNA is an upright representation of Magic Wands' lavish sound, full of dreamlike obscurity and memorable pop straightforwardness. "The idea for the song was about a couple in love running from being observed by aliens," they comment. "They are fascinated by their chemistry and want to capture them and study their DNA."





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One of the most anticipated post punk records of 2018 is finally being released this Friday, May 25th on Felte. LA's Numb.er (pronounced nŭm -ə(r), as in "more numb") are ready with their debut album, Goodbye, off which now comes the fourth single before the entire thing's release, album closer, We Hide.

About the newly reveled song, the band's own, Jeff Fribourg says, "This is one of the first progressions I came up with on a synth. I wanted it to sound like spill over from a club in an alley in Berlin. Being a fan of darker bands like Bauhaus and Primal Scream I looked to fuse those musical cultures with some straight-forward punk ideals and thrown it on it’s ass; slow it down and simplify it to add a club feel and an aggressive approach to an extremely sensitive theme."

In support of the coming record, Numb.er is performing live every Monday in May at The Echo in Los Angeles.



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Coming on strong with an excellent, vigorous fusion of post punk and noise rock, Melbourne's Lost Talk released their debut album, Symbol/Signal, earlier in 2018 through Spooky Records.

After the first single and video for Chrome Alone, now album closer, Jesus/Centaur comes with an accompanying video which looks as frantic as the song sounds. The track wittily reflects on the analogies between belief and fantasy, and in its less than three-minute long conciseness, it once again exhibits one of the finest, underappreciated bands the genre has to offer at this point.

Lost Talk is a six-piece featuring members of undead bands including SCUL HAZZARDs, Mutton, Bone, Mongrel Country, Worm Crown and Hoarse.





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Where post punk, shoegaze and the dreamier side of elegant pop music meet, come Tangients, an up and coming duo from Los Angeles, comprised of Chelsea Ray (vocals, synth, guitar) and Be Hussey (bass, synth, guitar - also of GUIDES and Radar Bros.).

Tangients are being introduced to the world with a captivating single, and its eerie, achromatic visual accompaniment, directed by Sarah Bitely. White Foam is established on Ray's formidable, ethereal vocals, and Hussey's masterful production, and it positively appears like the beginning of a robust new act.

"In 2012, I underwent something traumatic that forever changed me… My heart stopped and I was shocked back to life," singer Chelsea Ray says about the life threatening experience which inspired the song. "The sparse, yet intense memories I have from this moment gave me a completely different perspective. After ‘coming back,’ I felt that I was only a fragment of the person I was before. Here I am a few years later, writing lyrics about it, and I feel lucky just to be here."







Photo by Danielle Engelman.





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Hailing from Kingston, Ontario, noise pop trio, Deux Trois, are setting up the release of their debut album, Health, due out June 8th, 2018.

Following their impressive breakout single, Late Night Girls, the band has just unveiled another song off the upcoming LP. Dave comes with an engaging and good looking video shot in a bare and beautiful space, and much like the previous single by Deux Trois, it once again reveals a characterful new band.

The band have a lot of interesting thoughts to share about the new single: "Dave is the moment you look back on your first experience of unrequited love, in all its awkwardness, longing and misunderstanding. The song is the sound and feeling of a catharsis: remembering how real your invisibility was to you, seeing the bitter sweetness (and the humour) in their image after time has passed and you are free to move on. The video needed to be as sincere in experience as the truth of the complexities of unrequited love, and the questions you ask inside yourself when confronted with who you were when you were young. Though the real Dave never loved me, but after the first time I saw him and nearly every subsequent moment that I saw him, I would be inspired to write. He was my deepest muse for many years, influencing my writing, music and art. When I look back, I know that I didn’t spend enough time with him to have a complete concept of his person. The Dave lyrics use imagery from 2001: A Space Odyssey to talk about being a juvenile in unreturned love, the distance between a weak computer and the image of his love interest. The video features improvised performance, people at play, actors in frustration and boredom, and documentary footage to lend truth to our images. The poignancy of the video comes from our band’s transparency and the thinking that went into making it, without losing the playful and cathartic vision of the song. A song without love in it is emptiness; there is love here, in every aspect of the virtual makeup of Dave."

Deux Trois is Nadia Pacey (of Konig), Benjamin Nelson (of PS I Love You), and Ben Webb (of Carvings & We Are Adam West).






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Toronto-based, Freedom Baby, fronted by boyfriend/girlfriend duo, Eric Reid and Brianna Bordihn, are fresh off their first EP, How You'll Grow, released in March 2018 to much acclaim. In quick succession the band have now come up with their most ambitious creative effort yet, an impressive fifteen-minute long single, I Want To Give.

Freedom Baby's most epic creation thus far began as an attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record for longest pop song which currently holds at 77 minutes. Their bedroom sessions resulted in an abundance of material which they later trimmed into the imposing single we get today, a song that combines a few different styles that span from indie rock to traditional folk to disco to punk, engaging throughout its entirety and playing luridly like a short film or a story divided in chapters.

It evolves; it softens and it erupts, and it go-arounds a few times; and it's best to stay put and focused for the whole thing, for a thorough and gratifying listening experience.





I Want To Give is out now on Blanket Fort.




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