MAGIK MARKERS - HOLY SHIT!

I enjoyed them live yeeears ago (2001). Was kinda fun. But records and current live shows are just so...average.

yeah, but they've now perfectly ressurected the spirit of 1985.

Crazy loud mastering job.

truu ouch

The poncey songs are nice.

Awesome fucking album, great band.

That said, I'm not fond of the album's mix. The drums deserve better, and the vocals are a tad too loud in many places (very distracting). You can tell they wanted to be all like "Elisa IS a great writer, see? We told you so"! Also, she seems a little too concerned with rhyming...I enjoy her free-form rants more. They need to mix in a fucking 20-30 minute jam on their next outing instead of limiting themselves to such traditional song lengths.

I sound like a hater, but trust me, I love this album. They never cease to surprise me, and I think we are still far from seeing all this band has to offer. They're one of the few bands that excite me nowadays. I just think they still need some polishing for the official releases. At the least, they need better engineers in the studio.

you're right about the rhyming.

bedroom door aJAR
gonna make you a sTAR.

They never start to surprise me. New kids, old noise.

all the things i looked for in Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex = BOSS

Lee Ranaldo has turned Thee Magik Markers into a 3rd rate Cat Power. Those drums sound like cardboard boxes.

yeah, but they've now perfectly ressurected the spirit of 1985.

This sounds intriguing. How is it like 1985?

This band is so raging

yo kyle in response to your comment of many years ago they are playing NO tomorrow

Homework Undone--did Lee record the album? I'm not being a prick...I really don't know.

yes

BOSS

fuckin love this album

I am the secular pentecost / squeezing out the blue snake

That's about pooping.

Boss is great. Get the vinyl dave?

lo-fi handmade covers with semi-gloss photo inesrt = intentionally funny?

Is the vinyl out already?!

Get the vinyl dave?

not yet but i will. (yes it's out)

BOUCE

THNAK U FOR THIS REVIVE

i wish Rick Ross was on this album though

yes, yes, and yes...i will never understand all this, "its just this" talk. confusion is sex is only 30odd minutes..you don't want more?! esp if its not that at all?! pulling boss out for todays walk

i wish Rick Ross was on this album though

Controversial change of direction for new Magik Markers album:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025SAA.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

the first three tracks on this absolutely slay

can anyone point me to free MM live mp3s online? having a hard time finding any

The Lighter Side of ... Hippies

BONFIRE has some HOT LICKS

TASTY LICKS AT THAT

I love the current Markers action, they are just a great band.

Pretty good interview with Elisa in Rookie Mag of all things (no slight, just don't read it much and this is the first time I have been pointed their way for a weirdo music thing): http://rookiemag.com/2013/11/magik-markers-mirrorless/

This album feels....really pro forma how

I want an Elisa solo album ala Jim Morrison's An American Prayer, where it's mostly just voice

Haven't even heard the record yet, just relating to the last few shows I have seen, which I loved. Gotta go listen to the record I guess.

new album is killer

raymond, have you heard the 200 Years records..? Elisa & Ben Chasney, mostly vocals & acoustic guitar. really nice. they were great live, too.

really like 200 years thanks for mentioning that i didnt know it existed. still need to hear the new 1

Man, Elisa's new record is great. Not sure what I was expecting, but kind of hits on everything I would hope she would get up to on a solo record. Catchy as hell but some really cool moves to dig into as well.

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/stream-elisa-ambrogios-debut-full-length-the-immoralisthttp://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/stream-elisa-ambrogios-debut-full-length-the-immoralist

Yep, loving this. Of course, Elisa can do no wrong in this house.

Hah yeah Elisa is the greatest. I mean, watching her play guitar live is one of my favorite show experiences in the world, as she is an alchemist and magician and I have no idea how she does it but it is astounding every time. So cool to see the songwriting side manifest itself so well too though.

This album is so, so, so good.

I like it better than the last couple MM albums for sure, need to spend more time with it.

Funny, when I reviewed the last MM I openly begged for Elisa to do a solo joint, then she totally DID.

new one (out in a few weeks i think) sounds great! all over the place, but all killer.

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.