Hear the new album in its entirety here: http://magneticisland.bandcamp.com/ Magnetic Island’s debut LP “Magnetic Island”: Call it scene one, take two. When Magnetic Island emerged last year from the remnants of Renminbi with a flurry of new recordings, they sounded like a band that was still sorting through the rubble of their old ideas and [...]
Well, the actual land mass is off the coast of Australia, to be exact. But the band that goes by the same name has over the past several months been tucked away in one of two places: Brooklyn, NY or Athens, VT. The former is where the core group that’s been working on the new [...]
So, yeah, we haven’t done much in the way of updates around here lately. But stuff has definitely been happening. Actually, 2011 has so far proven to be an extremely productive, even prolific, time for us. We’ve been collaborating with a bunch of new folks — drummers, guitarists, multi-instrumentalists — but also trying to improve [...]
A lot of people have asked us why we’re choosing to release “Out at Sea” on tape, as opposed to the ubiquitous CD or the audiophile-prefrerred vinyl. There are a myriad of reasons. First and foremost: we really like cassettes. Although CDs came into common use by the time we were in middle school, CD-Rs [...]
Earlier this year, we formed Magnetic Island as an outlet for the collaborative work we’d been wanting to do with friends, acquaintances and musicians we’ve admired from afar. The goal is to get a bunch of personalities in a room and see what comes out after first improvising, then refining, and lastly recording sounds. The [...]