Retro pop
Indie pop
Synth-pop
Heavy pop
Glitz pop
Space pop
Neon pop
Magdalena Bay began writing ’90’s music from the future’ together since high school. Listening to this track of theirs is quite like time-travelling in a glitch-infused tornado of neon color. Pulsing beats, jarring vocal chops and a carnal base topped with contrasting lofty vocals and synths all build up to a thrashing climax: Jamming, clashing, brain-dazzling electronic sound.
Both recent graduates of college, the duo have found solace in pop in expressing a nostalgia for another time of freedom and self-expression.
In an interview with Atwood magazine, the band commented on how today’s pop music has indulged into the sound of the past, on a global scale. The band argues that this is a reflexive response of using that blinding brightness of 80s and 90s sound to counter the dominant currents of darkness surrounding pop in the past few years.
Read more here:
Talking Retro Pop and Vintage Film: A Conversation with Magdalena Bay
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Amazingly, Magdalena bay are also responsible for all of their glitch-crazed graphics accompanying their videos and campaigns, essential to creating ‘the vibe’ of their music according to the band.
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