14 Aug 2011 — Henning Lahmann
The fine folks over at San Francisco's
Empty Cellar Records recently sent over the forthcoming LP by Magic Trick, which is a solo project by Tim Cohen of the mighty psych-pop supergroup
The Fresh & Onlys (who,
as previously reported, really entertained us in Barcelona this past May).
The Glad Birth of Love is a superb record, being a proper full-length despite featuring merely four tracks, with below posted
Daylight Moon being by far the shortest, its rather expansive length of seven and a half minutes notwithstanding. All other songs easily exceed the ten minute mark while still remaining surprisingly tight compositions. Wide-spreading arrangements somewhere between free folk and outright psychedelia, the record is yet another proof of Cohen's immeasurable knack for writing ravishingly sun-embracing, decades-spanning and distinctly Californian pop masterpieces.
The Glad Birth of Love will be released August 23 and is up for pre-order
here.
Magic Trick - Daylight Moon
