View basket “Dancing With Strangers” 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 On Sale View Product Quick View Sea Girls Homesick Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th March 2022 £16.99 - £22.00 £22.00 Select options Sea Girls Homesick £16.99 - £22.00 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th March 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Band, The Cahoots – 50th Anniversary Rock And Pop | Virgin | 180g, 1LP, Box Set Released 21st January 2022 £22.00 - £122.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Band, The Cahoots – 50th Anniversary £22.00 - £122.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin Formats: 180g, 1LP, Box Set Released Date: 21st January 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View William Tyler Goes West – Indies Only Rock And Pop | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 25th January 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders William Tyler Goes West – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG645LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gabrielle Aplin Dear Happy Rock And Pop | Never Fade Records | 1LP Released 17th January 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gabrielle Aplin Dear Happy £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Never Fade Records SKU: NF40L Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Caravan Cunning Stunts Rock And Pop | Proper | 180g, 1LP Released 27th October 2023 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Caravan Cunning Stunts £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Proper SKU: UMCLP062 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Sarah Blasko Depth of Field Rock And Pop | MVKA | 1LP Released 23rd February 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sarah Blasko Depth of Field £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: MVKA SKU: 602567174837 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Paul Kossoff Back Street Crawler Blues | Island | 1LP Released 30th April 2024 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Paul Kossoff Back Street Crawler £12.00 Genre: Blues Label: Island SKU: nn285856 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Planningtorock Gay Dreams Do Come True Rock And Pop | Human Level | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 29th October 2021 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Planningtorock Gay Dreams Do Come True £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Human Level SKU: HL104LP Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 29th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nitzer Ebb Ebbhead Rock And Pop | Pylon | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th January 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nitzer Ebb Ebbhead £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Pylon SKU: PYLON45LP Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View UB40 For The Many Rock And Pop | Shoestring Music | 1LP Released 13th March 2019 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders UB40 For The Many £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Shoestring Music SKU: SHOELPA1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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