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10.0
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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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9.0
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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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9.0
138603
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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8.3
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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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8.2
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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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8.0
138604
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The duo’s second album allows for strange detours through a sonic hall of mirrors
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8.0
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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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7.7
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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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7.0
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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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6.0
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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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