♫♪  Magic Fades - Push Thru

There’s a subtly in Magic Fades’ Push Thru j-card art that I find directly reflects the Portland-based duo’s uniqueness of sound. Upon first viewing this image, one notices shiny-skinned figures rising and grasping out from a grid below them, as if it were the deep end of a pool; this immediate image seems almost expected of Magic Fades to use. What intrigues me more is the refracted colors illustrating the curvature of these figures. This blue line-light (maybe two) and a peach triangle in the distance (the POV of this image, actually) is exactly what I enjoy in Push Thru’s execution of popular genre blend.

The background noises of Push Thru is SO weird to me. It sounds almost cliche to crossover top 40 -esque pop-&-B with funky techno-step, but that slight skew Magic Fades has always deployed in their music is hidden in the best way possible here. Yet, it acts as the focal illusion of how they get away with something typical in a progressive (impressive?) way. The intro to “Draped Mesh,” for example: skull-caving into the light twitch of a shore next to tweeting birds is pure ecstasy in the bizarre, but when you think that auto tune is just kicking in, you realize it’s been there the whole time, and then *skull-caved adorning smile*.

No tomfoolery here, reader. Magic Fades made another 2013 Push Thru on 1080p Collection’s glimmering cassette discography. Get it now. Nod too much. Look agreeable, always.

• Magic Fades: https://soundcloud.com/magicfades
• 1080p Collection: http://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com

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