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MG-203 The Magnificents - The Magnificents  The Magnificents emerge from their lair beneath ye olde Edinburgh streets with their debut full-length, and with a name like the Magnificents, why shouldn’t the album be self-titled? An eleven track manifesto of synth led anthems, The Magnificents doesn’t pay homage to influences so much as it reawakens the raw energy of the summer of ’77. A whirl of battered analog keyboards, jagged guitars, dueling analog and digital drum work, surrounds the hook-laden songwriting that has become the Magnificents’ stock-in-tirade. |
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| Don't so much have influences as seem to have directly tapped into the life-force of the greats - NME / Sound like precious little else at present. Record Of The Week - Scotland On Sunday / An overall stimulating discharge - The Scotsman / The Magnificents get it very right indeed, which is rare at this point in time - Art Rocker / Deserve all the hype they can get. Their ballsy, chaotic debut... works brilliantly - The List / Tunes that are currently making us pant like puppies for more - Bullit / Truly remarkable - Stylus |
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| The Magnificents are one of the most interesting new bands on this planet or any other. Fresh from a stellar showcase at SXSW in the Lone Star State – where the editor of The Austin Chronicle felt compelled to supplement their logo with an exclamation ha!o – these itchy and scratchy electromagnetic tomcats are set on a break-neck trajectory en route to somewhere out there. Arguably, the former Edinburgh College of Art quartet are augmenting a nitrous oxide layer to a Teutonic wedding cake first baked by Can, Kraftwerk, Joy Division and Magazine. With a splash of Metzger and a skoosh of Basquiat, the neoteric top-tier of this rocket-cake seems set to redefine the blurred line between hair-trigger insomnia and heir-to-the-throne insanity. In May, the ever-discerning Beta Band favoured The Magnificents’ rampant energy for their first-ever support act - hiring them as wing-men on the UK leg of their Heroes to Zeros tour – while Robert Hardy of Franz Ferdinand is another high-fidelity fan. - Nemis |
