Customer Reviews

Automagic

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Iceland was the hip place to go back in 2001. This is another Iceland band that is on the same label as Mum and The Funerals. It is mostly an electronic album with female vocals made in the bedroom of Arni Asgeirsson. Being on Arena Rock it is also much like On!Air!Library! and early Calla. It is electronic and much like a film score. There is even a quirky version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart." It is a serious record. It is reminiscent of old records on the 4AD label. Icelandic bands are hit or miss. This is one to check out.

I bought this CD as a gamble -- "You're too late, Satan" by Worm Is Green is a personal favorite but it's not available on CD (right now download only) so I bought Automagic and hoped for the best. Well, like the last reviewer, I felt most tracks were mediocre. The cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" takes some getting used to, but works. I also liked "Drive Thru" despite the fact that it is extremely repetitious and I totally understand why the last reviewer disliked it. Overall this group has great potential, needs to use the female vocalist more in the same way they did on "You're too late, Satan."

Please, before you buy this album, listen to the samples. KCRW recommended this on their Broadband progam, so I bit...and twelve bucks later was very disappointed.

There are some bright spots, such as tracks 3 and 10, but there are many very, very cheezey cuts. Most of the vocals are, well, just awful. The male vocals are painful...no, agonizing. Witness Tracks 8 and 9. I just don't understand what the other reviewer was thinking.

The kid has potential. Let him grow up a bit before you buy this album and don't spoil him.