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IMPREC 151CD
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"7th 'proper' album from esoteric Anglo-French, London-based 'ghost-rock' group that ranges from brittle folkish introspection to dynamic all-out noise intensity. Produced by Guy Fixsen of Laika (engineer to the likes of My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, The Breeders, Stereolab). Part-Monster, Piano Magic's 7th 'proper' album (excluding compilations) easily lives up to its title. Though Piano Magic are generally tarred with the brushes of ambient, coldwave or even ghostrock, Part Monster has its fill of all-out, near brutal, dynamic intensity. Indeed, anyone who's witnessed PM live over the past 2 years or so will testify that the shadowy introspection of their records is camouflage for a beast of many teeth. Bringing in Guy Fixsen, of the group, Laika, as producer, clearly marked the band's intention for a rawer, more powerful sound. Fixsen has taken the production and/or engineer chair for such luminaries as The Pixies, Moonshake, The Breeders, Joy Zipper, Stereolab, Lush and most notably for My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. That's not to say that Piano Magic have entirely turned the amps up to 11. Part Monster gracefully manages to balance this cathartic noise with romantic paeans to their favorite subject -- the more cruel, tragic side of their home city, London, and most notably tips a hat to perhaps the most graceful of its outcasts, Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man)."
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IMPREC 090CD
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"A new 4 track EP of brand new material from London's Piano Magic. Brings to mind the mid-'80s 4AD Records ethereal romanticism of This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. It's a glacially produced, though spiritually warm set of songs which evoke beautiful, though bleak, European winter landscapes, lost causes and broken hearts."
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IMPREC 045CD
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"Hands down, thee most purely electronic record Piano Magic have ever made -- a brash stylistically pendulum swing from the most recent album, The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic. It evokes not only cruel English Winters but also the ghost of a great lost treasure of English Literature, WNP Barbellion (his early 20th century diary was entitled, The Journal Of A Disappointed Man). It's a record with a warm heart in a glacial season. It was recorded at Piano Magic's Murder Mile Studio in the redbrick, rundown backstreets of East London and features the vocal contributions of Angele David-Guillou, oft chanteause with the band, though soon to be more regarded for her own exquisite project, Klima."
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