Magic Wands

Magic Wands are hotly tipped Nashville based girl/guy duo Chris and Dexy Valentine. With instantly memorable poppy hooks and melodies, backed by huge washes of distorted guitars and immense drums machine rhythms and bass lines, Magic Wands are one of the most exciting groups to come out of America for a long time. And this is before we even touch upon how the band came to be.. Opening with the kind of fuzzed up guitar riff that wouldn’t sound out of place on either Blondie’s Parallel Lines, or Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the band’s first proper single ‘Black Magic’ is a swirling mix of sleazy, otherworldly psych-pop. Occupying the area between the spaced out vision of The Flaming Lips and Fleetwood Mac at their most emotionally fraught and melodic, ‘Black Magic’ centres around Dexy’s lead vocal “White light my time has come!” and is disco sleaze of the highest order. Lyrically and stylistically, Magic Wands have created their own weird and wonderful world. In their Ray-Band Wayfarers, cut off t-shirts and with only their guitars and a 5ft stuffed lion for company, Chris and Dexy are certainly doing their own thing. Dexy is like a young Debbie Ha... more...