lazy magnetWow, i feel tired, and why? I’ve just listened to Lazy Magnet’s album He Sought for that Magic by Which all Glory and Glamour of Mystic Chivalry Were Made to Shine or Is Music Even That Good? The title in length, I guess is tiring enough, but the music even more so. Not because it’s arduous or tedious, far from it in fact. It’s the constant switching of styles and feelings which displaces me as a listener. In places it’s as punk as spitting, in others, as beach as boardies or as lounge like a dry Martini. Kooky, krazy, eklectic or klassically serious, there always feels a little bit of a tongue poking into someone elses cheek. But for all the tiring ever changing elements of this album, it’s seriously enjoyable and through the never resting attitude the 40-something minutes fly by, leaving me feeling thoroughly magnet fucked. From the kind of throwaway attitude there is here to stylistic affiliation I see a big finger being shown to genres. Why should it matter what we can say about how it fits in or not, in fact, I should not spend as much time writing about how it doesn’t fit to anything, it just IS, und Ende. Further more to this, I have recently seen a few visuals from Lazy Magnet from the Corleone 10 Years DVD (which I will hopefully review later). Lazy Magnet`s 7 minute animated story here (which also turnes into a live stage performance) about men that turn into monsters and fight with dragons and wizards and in another story a cat and a rabbit taking mushrooms, tripping out, being kidnapped (or cat & bunny-napped) and then dropped in the sea, so delicious. Interesting lo-fi animation techniques sat very well with Lazy Magnet’s laid back attitude to style. What u think?
:: Lazy Magnet/He Sought For That Magic By Which All Glory And Glamour Of Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine - or - Is Music Even Good? - Corleone Records/Import.
