Brooklyn’s Paperwhite had a minor blog hit (we’re defining blog hit by getting on the Hype Machine chart and a having a large number of blogs writing about them) earlier this year with their debut track Got Me Goin’ and then impressed us further with their cowbell-tastic remix of one of our favourite songs of the last six months - Fickle Friends’ Swim.
Now there’s song 2 and no, we don’t mean a cover version of the Blur classic. Instead Katie and Ben bring us a piece of 80’s referencing soft-focus FM synthpop by the name of Magic. It sounds like all of the worst bits of the 80’s somehow transformed into something rather gorgeous (and doesn’t the chorus just sound a little bit like Haim covering Dollar? No, OK maybe that’s just us). If you like your pop dirty, grubby and a little bit nasty, then Magic isn’t going to do it for you, but if like us you’re not averse to something clean cut, pristine and blissfully pure then this one is for you.
Paperwhite - Magic
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