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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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| If you have been hankeringafter the austere sounds of post-punk Sheffield transplanted to 21st century Edinburgh, then this is your lucky week, because The Magnificents' debut album is here and a better pastiche of Cabaret Voltaire and early Human League you will not encounter, except possibly in a tribute band. A quarter of a century on The Magnificents establish that it is still never a bad idea to cross the trailblazing electronica of Kraftwerk with the anarchic surge of punk and crank up the volume, particularly if your singer has a voice like a foghorn and needs a sturdy sonic buffer to absorb the impact. Individual songs don't leap out; The Magnificents is more of an overall stimulating discharge. There is great potential here - just as long as they don't succumb to photo sessions on desolate tracts of wasteground. - The Scotsman |
