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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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| Edinburgh's The Magnificents belong to that breed of rock musician who have discovered synths but who can't understand why they're so often used for girly, wussy genres like disco and pop. They want to use them, essentially, just to make a bit of racket. As a result The Magnificents sound a bit like the Faint with the Duran Duran influences excised. Considering that the Duran Duran influences are the best thing about the Faint this could be a bit of a problem. On the other hand you could look at them from the other end of the spectrum and say that they're one of the few bands to take so-called "krautrock" influences and use them to make something exciting and rock 'n' roll. "Kids Now," for example, has a staccato, Teutonic keyboard riff but also a bunch of excitable Scotsmen bellowing "Kids Now!" in a commendably punk rock manner. Apparently they're friends with Mogwai and there's a similar love of white noise in the static that burns into "Digital Dirt"... - Bullit |
