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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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| There's a (synth-punk) riot going on... There's nowt like a band teetering on the edge of collapse to get the juices flowing, and few flirt with chaos like Edinburgh art-college boys The Magnificents. The bug-eyed marshals of retro-futurist racket (treble! bass! knackered vocoders!) don't so much have influences as seem to have tapped directly into the lifeforce of the greats: The Stooges for raw, primal energy, Joy Division for twitchy, itchy momentum and The Jesus & Mary Chain for howling intemperence. It takes a couple of breathers, but essentially this is a record summed up in two titles, "Digital Dirt" and the staccato, magnifico call-to-arms "Kids Now!". A blast, but NME worries for their blood pressure. - NME |
