MAGIK MARKERS - HOLY SHIT!

Wild thread! Hadn't seen! Glad for new album, and here's a brief review-as-preview I wrote in 2010 for Columbus OH altweekly long ago:
The Magik Markers
3/23 @ The Summit
“America’s past pays America’s rent,” Elisa Ambroglio sneers amidst the lost highway traffic of Balf Quarry, the Magic Markers’ current album. Familiar images and sounds of rebellion are too easy to fall into. So the Markers trace a place where sludge keeps speeding up, punk and metal elements turn pop and back, while busts of gutless dreamers seem headed for the mirror. The tension continues as Ambroglio’s voice and guitar spell out the lottery slogan, ”You can’t win/If you don’t play”, like a neon sign in the smog.
Woody G salutes you, Markers!

stoked, i didnt know abt the recent ep either

Indeed -- also, they've been going nuts with Bandcamp Fridays putting up both tons of their old out of print CDRs and otherwise unreleased and/or side project efforts via their Arbitrary Signs label:

https://arbitrarysigns.bandcamp.com/

Plenty to dig into! Presumably they'll be adding more tomorrow.

Yesss stoked to check all that new shit out. Magik Markers keep it lit

That Dream (Shitty Beach) is such a rugged lil jam i keep that one on repeat for a while

^^^ - rizzx otm, this was already really good, but that pushed the album to a new level. Loving this.

Yay...the album starts off great like that with a couple of hazy burners until it leads to the shitty beach where they roll around in the sand and it gets in their guitars and they have a great time. Still taking in the sweeter parts of the album, they haven't clicked as much for me

Headphones! I find myself dancing along to Find You Ride and kitchen pogoing to That Dream while the rest of the album is great to zone out to. Headphones!

this is pretty much sold out everywhere on vinyl already

i bet drag city will press more ... man, what a great record, though!

yeah I respect that Drag City doesn't play games with creating artificial scarcity, like for ex. when they repressed Purple Mountains as fast as they could

oldies.com has 8 copies left after I ordered

2020 is such a perfect rock record for these times, all weird and insular and shut-in and downbeat