The Magic Numbers by Magic Numbers

Pros: Good fun feel good music.
Cons: A little overlong.

It seems that during those lazy days of summer, our subconscious minds go on a long and premature vacation. In Britain this year, while we sweltered and our minds were elsewhere, we appear to have allowed the cozy musical styles of our youth take the ...

Pros: Undeniably pleasant, performed fantastically, addictive.
Cons: None, really.

Sometimes we need music to stimulate the intellect. As music fans, it's occasionally what we desire: something challenging, opaque, and yet ultimately musical, sending signals to the brain, massaging the medulla oblongatta and all that jazz. It's true; ...

Pros: Beautiful harmonies, mostly well-written and watertight-playing
Cons: A couple of the slower tracks are not to my taste

Picture the scene: two people, both claiming to be huge fans of ‘real’ music, are watching highlights of a summer music festival on television. The next band up consists of four visibly overweight, not conventionally attractive people, but the song is ...

Pros: Beautiful, beautiful songs. Timeless lyrics, great harmonies. Just a perfect album.
Cons: Can be 'mood-specific,' requires patience and the willingness to play it over and over again

Every once in a while an album comes around that makes you re-appraise your views of music. Every about this eponymous album from ‘The Magic Numbers’ indicates that I wouldn’t enjoy it. It’s not particularly loud or fast or epic and on the face of it, ...