Here We Go Magic

Here We Go Magic

‘A Different Ship’ (Secretly Canadian)

4.5
By Ben Homewood 18 May 2012

There are many points where Here We Go Magic seemingly ‘go magic’ on their third record. Take ‘Hard To Be Close’: what begins like a Johnny Cash cast-off is clothes-lined by a tricky chord change into an ethereal netherworld, where ‘Paranoid Android’ guitars twitch and burble. Then there’s ‘I Believe In Action’, whose glittery, falsetto flushed middle-eight lifts off quite elegantly, and the lightning-paced transcendence of ‘Make Up Your Mind’; unquestionably the product of some soul-selling sorcery. Maybe it’s Radiohead-producer Nigel Godrich’s golden touch, or maybe it’s just some clever loop-pedal usage, but ‘A Different Ship’ is a magnificent return.

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