Death and romance

Magdalena Bay's Imaginal Disk is a flex. Matt Lewin and Mica Tenenbaum are two of the strongest songwriters, producers and arrangers working today. On their second studio album they lean into the second two roles, discarding pop hooks into a surf of surging stop-start textures and atmospheres. They're synthpop but they're prog. They're in their prime. This is the moment to enjoy them.

Mica Tenenbaum: I love Genesis, and I'd want Peter Gabriel's voice to be heard at my funeral. "Carpet Crawlers" is a gorgeous song. I'd never really listened to the lyrics so closely, but they actually do seem to be about destruction and rebirth and having to "get in to get out"—which is like life and death. And you get that organ vibe. It's dabbling in those classic funeral sounds without being over-the-top or morose.

Read the full interview with Magdalena Bay by Ryan Dombal at Hearingthings.co.