Like Water, by Magic Island

Like Water

by Magic Island

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1.	Intro / The Waves Crash 02:36		buy track
2.	Shepherd 03:50		buy track
3.	Like Water 03:37		buy track
4.	Little Love - Feat. Sean Nicholas Savage 03:24		buy track
5.	Heartbeat 04:00		buy track
6.	daysgoby 03:52		buy track
7.	Alchemy 05:08	lyrics	buy track
The fire, the fire Give myself away The fire, the fire Just another day The fire Burns beneath the lies Your fire Comes between my thighs You’re a million and one questions A million Don’t you ever let me go If you let me go I will lose my power Didn’t you already know? I have zeal For your Alchemy Don’t you ever let me go If you let me go I will lose my power I am trying not to show My zeal For your Alchemy For your alchemy Drink it up, drink it up I have begged you to burn Run away, run away A lesson I have learned I didn’t wanna write this story I didn’t wanna let you down I didn’t wanna write this story I didn’t wanna let you down Let you down Don’t you ever let me go If you let me go I will lose my power Didn’t you already know? I have zeal For your Alchemy Don’t you ever let me go If you let me go I will lose my power I am trying not to show My zeal For your Alchemy
8.	Wonders 04:36		buy track
9.	Ostsee 04:14		buy track
10.	rundry 05:30		buy track

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In an isolation tank, one is immersed in body-temperature salt water. The skin’s boundary loses its coherence. It becomes difficult to tell outside from inside. Deprived of light and sound, the mind plays freely. In the tank, it is precisely the softness of water that works to break down the structure of the here and now, allowing reverie to spill in.

It’s this paradoxical quality of water, its simultaneous strength and yieldingness, its stillness and impermanence, that Magic Island seeks to capture on her debut LP, Like Water. She describes her wish “to return to a sensitivity, a delicate state; to become soft again,” and her songs, each a kind of romantic lullaby, weaving together equal parts R&B and New Age, gain their power from their gentleness, the relentless subtle action of a universal solvent. If Like Water belongs to a time of day, it is not the middle of the night, but the first hours of late-morning wakefulness, when memories present themselves at an unhurried pace, to be studied in a mood of detached reflection rather than compulsive regret.

The first single “Alchemy,” with its disorienting swirl of chimes and echoes, is the album at its most alienated, a spell of ‘desperation and confusion, about looking for release but becoming a monster. “Shepherd,” which first surfaced at the end of 2015, is a story of being lost and hoping for a guide, while the ritualistic “Wonders,” explores themes of illusion, those made by others and by ourselves.

On the sultry title track (co-produced with fellow Berliner Karolini) which sees Magic Island demonstrating an impressive new vocal range, the deep bass kick measures out a slow-mo waterfall. “Days Go By” shifts midway into a bedroom rave. But elsewhere the drum machine strikes like a becalmed heart heard by an ear held close to the chest, most strikingly on the languid closer “Rundry,” and “Little Love,” a polyamorous duet with leading indie-crooner Sean Nicholas Savage.

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released February 24, 2017

Like Water was written in Magic Island’s home studio in Neukölln, and mixed by Dawid Szczesny (Normal Echo) and Lucas Chantre (Fenster).

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Magic Island Berlin, Germany

Having been described as 'honest pop,' Magic Island's soundscape is permeated by haunting and unforgettable flavours. The artist weaves together unembellished compositions with tangles and twists of her signature weirdness. Starting with short vocal lines and looping melodies on her keyboard, Magic Island builds them up and out, pulling freely from R&B, experimental pop, and soulful sounds. ... more

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