Eagerly awaited and warmly embraced, 4 Or 5 Magicians' debut album 'Empty, Derivative Pop Songs' is a pseudo-cynical, satirical collection of eleven high-octane, guitar driven, lyrical laments with the common theme of the folly of life, and the fallibility of man, which revels in its own struggle against imperfection. All tracks were recorded on a laptop in short blasts, in a rehearsal room with half-busted equipment, in under 18 hours total, for around £100. The lyrics ruefully grins at its own hypocrisy: "Way over your heads, you're too stupid to get my edgy, alternative rock songs / Well, if you think you do, the joke's on you, they're just empty, derivative pop songs", Ormsby sniggers on 'Change The Record'.
Biography
4 OR 5 MAGICIANS are a four or five piece alternative rock outfit from Brighton, UK. They take most obvious influence from the golden era of American indie rock… GUIDED BY VOICES, REM, NIRVANA, THE REPLACEMENTS, SEBADOH, DINOSAUR JR, PAVEMENT, THE PIXIES, BUILT TO SPILL, and early WEEZER and EVERCLEAR, but could write a list as long as your arm of bands who have influenced them, and even then, you’d have to have a pretty long arm, and a pretty fine nib on your ballpoint.
Discography
4 Or 5 Magicians
Nice Little Earner (Single)Tracklisting
Nice Little Earner
Catalog
STA067
Release Date
09 Oct 20094 Or 5 Musicians
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Empty, Derivative Pop SongsTracklisting
I'm In The Band
Forever On The Edge
Behind Each Others Backs
Out Of My Hands
Form An Orderly Queue
Your Fictitious Character
Is This Your Ideal Man
Nice Little Earner
Change The Record
Oh Darwin
Preaching To The ConversedDescription
Catalog
STA062
Release Date
26 Oct 2009Videos