aaamusic | On 20, Dec 2010

Here We Go Magic’s second album ‘Pigeons’ landed in June through Secretly Canadian, with it’s mesmeric psychedelic pop winning over the likes of Thom Yorke, Drowned in Sound and Pitchfork.
Latest news:
The Brooklyn five piece just finished a final round of Canadian dates, rounding off a successful year of touring Europe, Australia and the States with Grizzly Bear and Broken Social Scene.
Broken Social Scene’s Brandon Canning Picks ‘Pigeons’ as his favourite album of 2010 on SPIN
‘Collector’ was selected as number 76 top track of the year on Pitchfork
Ragged Words voted ‘Pigeons’ no 70 in their top 100 albums of 2010

Download the original of the sublime ‘Collector’

Hear Here We Go Magic’s cover of Neon Indian’s ‘Terminally Chill’

Download HWGM remix Of Local Natives ‘Sun Hands’

Hear Sun Airway remix of ‘Casual’

Download PVT’s rework of ‘Collector’

Watch the disturbing video to current single ‘Casual’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4qWFa8v7Y

Watch the video to ‘Collector’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNcRz5BIBFo

Watch ‘Don’t Look Down’ Session On Pitchfork:
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2828-here-we-go-magic/1

What the critics say about ‘Pigeons’:
“… the woodshedded feel of Pigeons is a good look for the band. Here We Go Magic are doing something more interesting– something weirder; they’re trying out takes on jittery new wave, tone-smeared dream-pop, and high-pitched Kiwi pop with success.” – Pitchfork
“Opener Hibernation is one of the better, funkier songs that The Sea and Cake never wrote, F.F.A.P. carries echoes of Grandaddy at their most affectingly maudlin, and the introduction of Surprise could be by Grizzly Bear before Temple and co. take it down a path that’s theirs alone. And that, really, is the crowning pleasure of Pigeons: the sound of a smart, talented band carving out their own uncommon, enchanting space.” – BBC Music
“The lead single ‘Collector’ is a light-footed locomotive that sees a happy mid-summer wedding of kraut and twee sensibilities and climaxes with a wonderful motorik drive. Temple’s musical sidestep has made Pigeons a chastely energetic opus of superbly-crafted timbral detail.” The Quietus
“dreamy beauty” – Drowned in Sound
“an impressive leap forward in the career of a band that’s got the right mix of weird singularity and uncanny pop sensibilities to go wherever they want.” Music OMH
“This psychedelic folk pop-athon of tickled riffs, snappy elastic basslines, shimmering synths and sweetly sung vocals is all dreamy eccentricity, with a bittersweet hint of rhythmic unrest, from start to finish” – NME
“Pigeons has just confirmed the band’s new found cult status alongside Grizzly Bear
and Vampire Weekend.” – Filter Magazine
Press release:
Here We Go Magic is Luke Temple, Kristina Lieberson, Michael Bloch, Jennifer Turner, and Peter Hale.
A five piece emerging from the environs of New York City sometime early 2009, the first material from Here We Go Magic arrived in the form of a unique collection of 4 track recordings created by founder Luke Temple. The band themselves had convened through a series of chance encounters, overheard conversations and supernatural occurrences. Whilst hailing from disparate musical backgrounds, they all found a common axis in Luke’s recordings then released as first album ‘Here We Go Magic’ on Western Vinyl.
Since then, the band has ridden an unwavering wave of creative momentum which resulted with appearances at this year’s SXSW garnering armfuls of plaudits, reducing the US media to superlative –laden acclaim. Along the way they have developed a broad array of musical material and honed what has become explosive live sound all of their own. They spent much of 2009 on successive North American and European tours with bands such Department of Eagles, Grizzly Bear, and the Walkmen, before retreating to a rented house in upstate New York to record their second full length LP aka ‘Pigeons’.
Recorded on analogue tape, this album represents a full-on collaborative work by a band with an uncanny musical chemistry. ‘Pigeons’ is produced by bassist Jen Turner and features thick full band arrangements by all members of Here We Go Magic. As they were immersed together in a very reactive and spontaneous creative process, most of the arrangements and textural treatments were born at the same moment as the songs themselves. Songwriter Luke Temple’s evocative melodies and lyrics are thus complimented and fleshed out in completely organic ways.
Taken as a whole, ‘Pigeons’ is a unique and fascinating journey from start to finish, rooted in driving repetitive rhythms, swathed in a celestial haze, and maintaining a consistent and comfortable expressive breath throughout.
Post SXSW, the band’s live show made it’s mark in Europe at The Great Escape and Primavera, plus main stage billing at Latitude and the Serpentine Sessions in Hyde Park with Grizzly Bear. Not to forget their Glastonbury appearances, which reportedly enthralled Thom Yorke, leading him to proclaim Here We Go Magic the best band of the festival.

www.myspace.com/herewegomagic
www.secretlycanadian.com