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I haven't really finished anything this week, nothing that I'm allowed to let you hear anyway, so here I go breaking with my maybe-slightly-narcissistic manifesto from last week already.

For one installment only, I'm going to write about my new favorite song. It is called "Fangela" and it's by Here We Go Magic.

I'm probably not the first person on the planet to blog about this band but that doesn't matter. I don't think I've listened to any one song more than "Fangela" this past week and it never bores or wearies. It's amazing and sounds a bit like Simon and Garfunkel recorded at the bottom of the ocean. But better than that. And with the most lush handclaps ever.

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Until last Monday I hadn't heard anything about what turns out to be a moniker for Brooklyn songwriter Luke Temple but now I can't get enough. His album, due out on Western Vinyl at the end of the month, is pretty great too. Albeit with a hefty dollop of weird. "Nat's Alien" sounds like it could have come off one of Masonna's Space Machine CD's, while "Ghost List" and "I Just Want to See You Underwater" sit well alongside the kind of lo-fi psych haze that I think people like Arch M and Banjo or Freakout are going to excite with this year. It ends with "Everything's Big," a brilliant, psychedelic, honky-tonk show tune with the most heartbreaking piano breakdown about halfway through.

Forgive me. I was only supposed to focus on one song, so without further ado…

Listen:

Here We Go Magic - "Fangela"

RODAIDH MCDONALD