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5Words on 12" Single

RIP Magic have wasted no time. In their

first year, they've been dubbed "London's

buzziest band" by The Guardian, played big

shows with LCD Soundsystem and Fcukers

and tiny ones in London bars and restaurant

basements, and now they finally release a

physical single, produced by James Murphy,

his first production for another band in over a

decade.

"5words" builds slowly into a euphoric urban

epic, sounding equally indebted to the Velvet

Underground, Orbital, Echoes-era Rapture,

and the Dean Blunt cinematic universe, and,

honestly, Nirvana. It sounds like decades

collapsing into the present, enabled by

frictionless discovery and resolved through

the simplest method: four people in a room

searching for something new, something

great, a good feeling.

The b-side features a remix by none other

than Maurice Fulton, his first DFA credit

since those Syclops records became instant

classics in 2008. Maurice is one of the

greatest remixers and producers of his era

and architect of a sound so singular and

identifiable that even all his pseudonyms can't

fool the trainspotters. This one is just the type:

thrillingly off-center and unavoidably banging.