View basket “Drama Of Exile (Indies Only)” has been added to your basket. 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 Big Jim Sullivan Sitar Beat Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 14th April 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Big Jim Sullivan Sitar Beat £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1857 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wedding Present, The Jump in, The Water’s Fine Rock And Pop | Come Play With Me | 10", 7", EP/Mini Album, Single Released 2nd August 2019 £ Select options Wedding Present, The Jump in, The Water’s Fine £ Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Come Play With Me Formats: 10", 7", EP/Mini Album, Single Released Date: 2nd August 2019 Read More Select options On Sale View Product Quick View Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Rock And Pop | UMC | 2LP Released 24th October 2020 £28.99 £40.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore £28.99 £40.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 866887 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 24th October 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Jack Flanagan Jack Rides The Sky Rock And Pop | Modern Sky | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd September 2022 £22.00 - £23.00 Select options Jack Flanagan Jack Rides The Sky £22.00 - £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Modern Sky Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd September 2022 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Cure, The Faith Rock And Pop | Fiction | 1LP Released 31st May 2022 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Cure, The Faith £12.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fiction SKU: nn243421 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st May 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Paloma Faith Fall To Grace Rock And Pop | RCA | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 10th March 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paloma Faith Fall To Grace £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RCA SKU: 88725412231 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 10th March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ringo Starr Crooked Boy EP Rock And Pop | UMe | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 31st May 2024 £22.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Ringo Starr Crooked Boy EP £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMe SKU: 6514255 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 31st May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ex Hex Rips Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP Released 13th October 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ex Hex Rips £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge SKU: MRG525LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Horrors, The V Rock And Pop | Caroline International | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 20th September 2017 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Horrors, The V £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Caroline International SKU: WOLFTONE014LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 20th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hannah Georgas I’d Be Lying if I Said I Didn’t Care Rock And Pop | Real Kind Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 25th August 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hannah Georgas I’d Be Lying if I Said I Didn’t Care £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Real Kind Records SKU: RLKND030 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 25th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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