The Magic Numbers burst onto the music scene with a debut album of bubble gum beautiful tracks which dipped and flowed so magically. The band all well shaped like a number 0 or alittle bumpy like an 8 but none the less, to me it was magic. They are the kind of music no one wants to admit to liking, no one wants to say "hey my name is (insert name here) and whilst I drive up the Great Western Highway to work each day and sing as if I am a back up singer for the magic numbers".
Well. "hey my name is Pix and whilst I drive up the Great Western Highway to work each day and sing proudly as if I am a back up singer for The Magic Numbers".
But ofcourse, ofcourse, the curse of the follow up would be a hurdle The Magic Numbers would need to encounter and overcome before anyone adopted the new songs into their cheesy sing-along collection. Early reviews I'd read on other blogs were very critical and upon hearing the tracks they offered, It was bloody accurate. The music was dull, average, more sleepy than it was bubbly. The tracks I heard were "Most of the time" & "Undecided" which to me aimed to be as sweet as "I see you, you see me" but just didn't make the cut to still be in the running to become America's Next Top Model. Shockingly, even a tinge more toward Joss Stone than anything which could be assimilated with quality.
But lucky I am a so up myself that I am skeptical of all those yank bloggers and their warped opinions. So I decided to hear the entire album for myself. Turns out, those nobs must have listened to the album in reverse, under water whilst at a Sam Champion concert, because what I heard was splendid. I just don't think the majority of yanks could digest the amounts of pure sugar that The Magic Numbers seek to inject.
While there will isn't anything to rival the overflowing amounts of sugar we hear in "Love me like you" or "Forever Lost", "Those the brokes" is solid if not airing a fraction too close to safe. None the less, I can fault it apart from saying possibly it lacks the alluring punch of their debut.
As always, see for yourself and let me know if I'm way off.
Mp3: The Magic Numbers - This is a song
Youtube: The Magic Numbers - Take a Chance
But lucky I am a so up myself that I am skeptical of all those yank bloggers and their warped opinions. So I decided to hear the entire album for myself. Turns out, those nobs must have listened to the album in reverse, under water whilst at a Sam Champion concert, because what I heard was splendid. I just don't think the majority of yanks could digest the amounts of pure sugar that The Magic Numbers seek to inject.
While there will isn't anything to rival the overflowing amounts of sugar we hear in "Love me like you" or "Forever Lost", "Those the brokes" is solid if not airing a fraction too close to safe. None the less, I can fault it apart from saying possibly it lacks the alluring punch of their debut.
As always, see for yourself and let me know if I'm way off.
Mp3: The Magic Numbers - This is a song
Youtube: The Magic Numbers - Take a Chance
2 comments:
the magic numbers are my favourite guilty pleasure
Do you people have a facebook fan page? I looked for one on twitter but could not discover one, I would really like to become a fan!
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