HERE WE GO MAGIC - Be Small

Here We Go Magic's new album "Be Small" finds the band taking a smaller approach to production and finding more intimate soundscapes - from the live, expansive sound of 2012's "A Different Ship", produced by Radiohead's 6th man Nigel Godrich, to "Be Small"'s direct-to-board home-recorded album - it hosts no less acrobatics of musicianship and a singular sonic ambition. Inspired by the massively under-appreciated Eno/Cale tune "Spinning Away" from their collaborative album Wrong Way Up (1990) and by Robert Wyatt's classic "Heaps of Sheeps" from Shleep (1997), HWGM's chief songwriter Luke Temple set out to create a collection of "overtly major and optimistic" songs without coming across as cloying. The robust 90s future pop sound of these odd fellow heavyweights fits Temple like a sequin glove. You can hear how these songs likely began as Temple's bedroom folk riffs, but where they ultimately end up - here with the help of longtime HWGM collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Michael Bloch, as well as Austin Vaughn on drums - is near-transcendent and celestial. Record Label: Secretly Canadian Style: Indie Rock