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described it as "the product of a band intensely honing what they want to sound like and ending up with a style so unique that it's barely possible to describe. It's dorky and strange and dramatic, like the duo themselves."
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stated that "if the duo's previous record showed off their mastery of pop songcraft, Magdalena Bay feel more interested in exploring new textures and emotional range on
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wrote that the album "finds at their most radical" and "offers a confluence of ideas that allows for strange detours through a sonic hall of mirrors". Matthew Kim of
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Though not an official member of Magdalena Bay, frequent collaborator and former Tabula Rasa bandmate Nick Villa performs drums on most tracks on the album.
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that form part of their adult bodies. For the album, Magdalena Bay reimagined the term as a distorted CD-shaped object inserted into a person's forehead.
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s Otis Robinson found it to be "kaleidoscopic and overproduced in all the right ways" and "soundtracked by the same anachronistic, trippy
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based on eight critics' reviews, which the website categorized as "universal acclaim". Nick Seip of
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of its predecessor but grounded by the busk-y tambourine and analogue percussion of
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review: a time capsule of post-internet existentialism"
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received a score of 85 out of 100 on review aggregator
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Oliver Hill – string arrangements, brass arrangements
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Imaginal disc
A gray hand with long fingernails pushing a CD into an opening in a bare-chested woman's head, with a blue sky and the sun shining in the background.
Studio album
Magdalena Bay
Genre
Synth-pop
dance-pop
Label
Mom + Pop
Producer
Mica Tenenbaum
Matthew Lewin
Magdalena Bay
Singles
Magdalena Bay
Mom + Pop Music
imaginal discs
larvae
Metacritic
AllMusic
The Line of Best Fit
NME
Pitchfork
Slant Magazine
Under the Radar
Metacritic
Slant Magazine
The Line of Best Fit
NME
synth-pop

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