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Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay

Imaginal Disk

Second full-length release from Los Angeles synth pop duo Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin was self-produced

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Mom + Pop
UK Release date
23/08/2024
US Release date
23/08/2024
  1. 10.0 |   NME

    The duo’s second album captures the visionaries at their most expansive: kaleidoscopic and overproduced in all the right ways
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  2. 9.0 |   Under The Radar

    At every turn, Imaginal Disk is ambitious and forward-thinking, but in the midst of all of Magdalena Bay’s playful self-styled performance art, they also manage to deliver one of the year’s most rewarding pop albums
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  3. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Sees Magdalena Bay channeling their overflowing creative energy into something novel – in a way, like an animal metamorphosing and inheriting its full body
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  4. 8.3 |   Northern Transmissions

    A fine portrait of creative freedom from two auteurs that have no trouble creating absurd, imaginary, and deeply innovative worlds
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  5. 8.2 |   Paste Magazine

    The duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin go longer, and further into left-field on their robust, hypnotic sophomore album
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  6. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The duo’s second album allows for strange detours through a sonic hall of mirrors
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    Magdalena Bay straddle pop worlds, bringing together a maximalist dance club atmosphere and ecstasy-laced, burning Wicker Man euphoria, all filtered through a dial-up computer dream of the pop future
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  8. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    The Los Angeles duo’s second album is musically and conceptually dense, warping the fundamentally optimistic sound of pop to suit a more cynical and paranoid reality
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  9. 7.0 |   Far Out

    Feels like a perfect product of Magdalena Bay’s relationship, where that closeness allows them to manage fun, experimentation, outright joy and deeper intrigue in a careful balance
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  10. 6.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Perhaps it will be the record to usher synthpop into a new age of high-concept refinement, but for my money this album plays more like a microdose-happy version of Barbieland for dissociated chic and high-concept fanfic
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