View basket “Live At The Sydney Opera House” 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 Jean Claude Vannier Roses Rouge Sang Rock And Pop | Finders Keepers | 1LP Released 17th October 2011 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jean Claude Vannier Roses Rouge Sang £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Finders Keepers SKU: TN092LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th October 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Slade Sladest – Splatter Colour Vinyl Rock And Pop | BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th November 2022 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Slade Sladest – Splatter Colour Vinyl £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4050538804270 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th November 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Tankard Zombie Attack Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Noise Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th November 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tankard Zombie Attack £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Noise Records SKU: 4050538275865 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Arcade Fire Everything Now (12 Rock And Pop | Columbia | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 8th June 2017 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arcade Fire Everything Now (12 £10.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 88985447841 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 8th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View King Krule You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down Rock And Pop | XL | 2LP Released 10th December 2021 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders King Krule You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: XL SKU: XL1182LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 10th December 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beach Boys Endless Summer Rock And Pop | UMC | 2LP Released 13th June 2016 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beach Boys Endless Summer £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 2427941 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 13th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Ten Years After Ten Years After Undead Blues | Deram | 1LP Released 4th May 2023 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ten Years After Ten Years After Undead £20.00 Genre: Blues Label: Deram SKU: nn262909 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th May 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View John Legend Bigger Love Rock And Pop | Columbia | 2LP Released 30th October 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Legend Bigger Love £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 19439782601 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 30th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lemonheads, The Fear Of Living / Seven Out Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 7", Single Released 5th April 2024 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lemonheads, The Fear Of Living / Seven Out £12.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRE752 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Iggy Pop with David Bowie 1977 Rock And Pop | Not Bad Records | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th January 2020 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Iggy Pop with David Bowie 1977 £12.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Not Bad Records SKU: NOTLP265 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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