The kind of music Piano Magic make is normally liable to get me agitated in all the wrong ways, stirring faux-intellectualism and crumbly soundscapes into a pink-flushed whole. Yet despite this inherent aversion, I always find myself swept away by their releases, whilst my usually bullet-proof cynicism melts down to a pliable husk. The bastards. And so it continues with 'I Came Toy Your Party Dressed As A Shadow', an EP of previously unreleased and exclusive songs that would act as a perfect accompaniment to 'The Opencast Heart' EP released earlier this year. Opening with the title track, Piano Magic augment a prickly consignment of rustles and clicks with a dousing of warm analogue syrup that somehow manages to bestow the overlay of dead-pan female discourse with a profundity it doesn't deserve. Of the other two songs, 'Blood & Snow' is a mischievous coalition of chimes and digital detritus, whilst 'The Drowning Of St. Christopher' is as epic as the title suggests. They'll slip up one of these days, just you wait and see...

EPka z 2001 roku.

The kind of music Piano Magic make is normally liable to get me agitated in all the wrong ways, stirring faux-intellectualism and crumbly soundscapes into a pink-flushed whole. Yet despite this inherent aversion, I always find myself swept away by their releases, whilst my usually bullet-proof cynicism melts down to a pliable husk. The bastards. And so it continues with 'I Came Toy Your Party Dressed As A Shadow', an EP of previously unreleased and exclusive songs that would act as a perfect accompaniment to 'The Opencast Heart' EP released earlier this year. Opening with the title track, Piano Magic augment a prickly consignment of rustles and clicks with a dousing of warm analogue syrup that somehow manages to bestow the overlay of dead-pan female discourse with a profundity it doesn't deserve. Of the other two songs, 'Blood & Snow' is a mischievous coalition of chimes and digital detritus, whilst 'The Drowning Of St. Christopher' is as epic as the title suggests. They'll slip up one of these days, just you wait and see...