Shout Magic

For me, this week is Music Week. With Christmas and all that craziness, I’ve gotten way behind on my all my music geekery. So I’m spending this week going through all the blogs and other music sites I love, just a little bit each day to keep my brain from exploding.

Before this morning, I had absolutely nothing to share for New Band Day. But I read about Shout Magic over at Badminton Stamps and, well, I liked their name enough to check them out. Yes, sometimes even we judge a book by its band name. So I hopped over to their myspace page and listened to what they’ve got going on there. To tell you the truth, I’m not sure exactly what to make of them and I’m not completely sure I like them yet. But they’re interesting enough to listen to some more and besides, it’s New Band Day, not Already Established As Awesome Band Day. They remind me a bit of Tapes N Tapes - not in their sound exactly but in their oddness - but a little more laid-back.

Go along and check them out at that myspace thing. If you like them (or are undecided like me), you can download their EP from the “Audio” section of their official site (both links above) for further listening - which is what I’ll be doing about 5 minutes from now.

UPDATE: 100b just received a lovely comment from Mike, Shout Magician, on one of our more recent posts, which reminded me to add an update to this here post. I downloaded the Shout Magic EP, just like I said I was going to, and I’ve given it a more careful listen. I feel bad that I was so lukewarm in this post, I hadn’t intended to - Shout Magic deserved a better write-up, especially since I’ve ended up liking their EP so very much. Now that I’ve listened to it a bit more, I’m kind of surprised that it didn’t grab me right away when I originally wrote this post. I’m especially liking “Ben Franklin Forever” and “Branch Dividians” right now, they’re absolutely fantastic. Almost pretty, but still quite funky and there’s some great old-school sounds in these songs that makes me smile. There, I just wanted to make that clear. Oh, and Mike also says that they’ll be putting some more songs up on their site soon, we’ll be looking forward to it!