2020 Magik Markers SKU: DC687 Barcode: 0781484068716 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City Released Date: 23rd October 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 2020! Now it can be told: the charade of a world without new MAGIK MARKERS records (six-plus years!) has finally ended. In these times of contagion fables and hacky blockbuster N95 disaster imagery IRL, MARKERS emerge again like three Lazarus from their three individual firmaments, just in the nick of the end of time. Never doctrinaire, on 2020, MARKERS capture a humid kind of chlorinated heat, playing like children of divorce at the condominium pool: strangers feeling out games to play, contests to have underwater, blowing by minutes without noticing at all. There is no more contemporary, they say, only emergency. So, here we are with results, the murky and public airing of songs, improvised and planned. Like damp concrete made up of the collected wet footprints of every single night since last we heard these MAGIK MARKERS. The results are amazing, sometimes, dare it be said: magical. “Surf’s Up” opens 2020 and is the redshift of this record, the reason we know light bends is because time changes it. We’ve flipped the event horizon; MARKERS are now freaked out in space on a spaced out bomb. It’s got a found-it-on-a-tape-in-the-attic vibe, echoes of CARPENTER’s Dark Star, CALE’s “Buffalo Ballet” and CASSINI’s namesake satellite taking cold old pictures alone in the airspace of Saturn’s sexiest moon. Here the MARKERS have found a reason — a soft ballad that breaks into a piano/guitar improvisation that is somehow, in spite of itself, a revel. Beneath the shifting, roiling surface of 2020, there is even more serious business going on. What MAGIK MARKERS do best is listening, and as SHAW, PETE and ELISA worked with the tunes, they heard something taking shape. Less a style than a spirit — a spirit that had to do with a delight in friendship and invention. Because man, in this economy? Friends, am I right? Making music. It’s all we’ve got. What matters now is JOHN SHAW’s monolithic bass; PETE NOLAN’s omnipotent drums and the magnificent immediacy of ELISA AMBROGIO’s lyrics and guitar. These songs are too contemporary — too emergency — to be subject to notices of timeliness, but “Hymn for 2020” feels SO timely, the clean comfort and hot/coldness of this 2016 composition predicting the aseptic now. Maybe we’re biased, but we wish it went on longer. We could listen to it forever. Like when WINSTON and JULIA fuck in 1984, this 2020, recorded and slowly mixed in the first humming tinnitus years after TRUMP was elected, feels like an animal response to the intellectual luxury of despair. It explodes like a dream. We can all be forced into wage slavery, the dreary fears of our own mortality and the tender traps of love, compassion and family; this record, in eternal Markers fashion, stands as proof that work born out of the unconscious can transcend the individual concerns of meatsackery, and commute purity and relief in the untethered ether that we all contain. It’s been argued that mushrooms are the aliens among us; the space invaders we wait for pant quietly beneath our feet and in our dinners. These MARKERS, MAGIK by nature, have built 2020 in this same unassuming way, slowly, their imagination persisting, fighting like fungii through the cracks in the sidewalk of late capitalism. That work, from all of us, can thrive and survive until there are more mushrooms than sidewalks. It only takes a few years. “There will be no other end of the world,” poet CZESLAW MILOSZ said; and here we are at 2020. Artist Magik Markers Genre Rock And Pop Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A Surf’s Up Find You Ride That Dream (Shitty Beach) Born Dead Side B You Can Find Me Hymn for 2020 Swole Sad Tic CDROM Quarry (If You Dive) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View John Foxx And The Maths The Machine Rock And Pop | Metamatic Records | 1LP Released 22nd September 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Foxx And The Maths The Machine £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Metamatic Records SKU: META62LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Procol Harum Procol Harum Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 3rd March 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Procol Harum Procol Harum £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1802 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 3rd March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Simon Lee Morgan Rockanje Rock And Pop | Tip Top Recordings | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 24th July 2020 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Simon Lee Morgan Rockanje £9.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Tip Top Recordings SKU: TIPT036 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 24th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Neon Indian Era Extraña Rock And Pop | Transgressive | 1LP Released 6th October 2011 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neon Indian Era Extraña £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Transgressive SKU: TRANS132X Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th October 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Isobel Campbell There Is No Other… Rock And Pop | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP Released 17th January 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Isobel Campbell There Is No Other… £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP720 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Suzanne Vega Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles Rock And Pop | Cooking Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th January 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suzanne Vega Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP600 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Oingo Boingo Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of Oingo Boingo Rock And Pop | A&M | 1LP Released 16th October 2023 £55.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Oingo Boingo Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of Oingo Boingo £55.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: A&M SKU: nn274253 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View Joe Bonamassa Live At The Sydney Opera House Blues | Provogue | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd November 2023 £15.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Joe Bonamassa Live At The Sydney Opera House £15.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: nn276597 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd November 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Anthonie Tonnon Successor Rock And Pop | Misra / Wilkindness Records | 1LP Released 29th June 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Anthonie Tonnon Successor £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Misra / Wilkindness Records SKU: LPWKR042 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lucy Spraggan Today Was a Good Day Rock And Pop | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP Released 3rd May 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lucy Spraggan Today Was a Good Day £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP727 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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