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Here We Go Magic - 'A Different Ship'

Here We Go Magic is Thom Yorke's favorite band. According to their press release.

HERE WE GO MAGIC
A Different Ship

Secretly Canadian, 2012

  • CELEB FANS:

    Thom Yorke, Anyone sharing a tent with Thom Yorke

  • vibes:

    Significance, Importance, Great minds coming together, Weight, Broadsheet newspaper, Mind gets weighty as you get closer to thirty

RATING:

TRACK LIST:

  • Intro
  • Hard to Be Close
  • Make Up Your Mind
  • Alone But Moving
  • I Believe in Action
  • Over the Ocean
  • Made to Be Old
  • How Do I Know
  • Miracle of Mary
  • A Different Ship

Here We Go Magic is Thom Yorke's fave-new-band. Or, at least, that is the line that gets touted round every press release they've ever grace. So the story goes: Apparently, Nigel Godrich and Thom were sharing a teepee together at Glastonbury, and Thom woke Nigel up so that they could go and watch Here We Go Magic play that morning. I imagine Thom, bursting with glee, having been awake all night, trying to figure out whether it was time yet to wake up Nigel Godrich. Nigel, after all, is the producer behind legendary albums like Travis' The Invisible Band, and Silver Sun's Silver Sun, so it's not a great idea to piss him off. Then, while everyone else was lethargically chilling in the early morning sun, the pair ran around at the front of the show, hopping, skipping and generally jumping up and down. I imagine, in the morning glow, the crowd thought these were just two weird guys who liked to jump around coming up off the previous night's eccies. I am reminded of the story of the king who disguised himself as a peasant in order to find out what his subjects really thought of him. Call me crazy, but I am sure I spotted a man of about Yorke's height later in the day, asking humble festival-goers in jester hats for detailed opinions on "Idioteque," and rewarding them with bags of gold if they said they felt it isolated a certain vein of millennial angst.

Anyway, wouldn't you know, Nigel liked them so much he decided to produce their new record. He called them in. He went to his thick, gloopy, crystalline sound-making machine, fed in some of their songs, and out it came--this big, lush, gorgeous forest canopy of rock. Of course, at heart HWGM are still more or less interchangeable with every skiffly US indie band who take themselves a mite too Seriously. An effect enhanced by the fact that they seem to jump from song to song with only limited regard for the whole, until you're not sure whether they're Chairlift, Freelance Whales, or OK Go. But they are, at least, a middling skiffly US indie rock band who take themselves a touch too seriously with really good production.