The Magic Numbers
For some reason for the last few months I’ve been getting The Magic Numbers confused with Major Moulty’s Amazing Magical Plastic Band. I thought it was really odd that before their first record was released a band would release expensive figures of themselves in bright sixties outfits. The Magic Numbers aren’t three-inch vinyl collectables, but rather a pair of a pair of siblings (that makes four people, two boys, two girls and two surnames) forming a soulful pop band from London.
The Magic Numbers create songs full of light and space that skitter from Monkees glee to a doo-wop caress, and onto a down-tempo country shuffle before stepping on a distortion pedal that contains such melancholy happiness you wonder if you’ve developed bi-polar.
Stand out tracks such as the opening epic ‘Mornings Eleven’, the country grind of ‘The Mule’ and the harmonious ‘Don’t give up the fight’ punctuate a very solid record. With a debut like this, The Magic Numbers are a very talented band, worthy of plastic effigies.
By Jan Bunny
Release: Album
To Cure: The hangover
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