Tag: MAGON World Peace

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New Video: JOVM Mainstay MAGON Shares Dreamily Introspective “Circles”

Prolific, JOVM mainstay MAGON closes out 2024 with his third album of the year and 10th album overall, the recently released World Peace. And in the lead-up to the album’s release, I wrote about two, previously released singles:

  • The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses-era Madchester scene-like “Stoned Seclusion Blues” a track that saw the JOVM mainstay revealing another shift in sonic direction.

  • “Falling In Love,” a dreamy psych folk ballad featuring strummed acoustic guitar, bursts of buzzing power chords and ethereal flutes paired with the JOVM’s mainstay’s introspective and thoughtful vocal turn.

The album’s latest single “Circles” is a dreamy, post punk-meets-Brothers In Arms-era Dire Straits like tune anchored around a gated-reverb beat, bluesy and shimmering arpeggios and a soulful horn solo. Thematically, the song sees the JOVM mainstay reflecting on the seemingly unending cycles and endless changes of life with a weary acceptance.

The accompanying video for “Circles” features animation sourced from John and Faith Hubley’s 1986 film The Cosmic Eye.

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New Video: JOVM Mainstay MAGON Shares Madchester-like “Stoned Seclusion Blues”

Over the course of the past couple of years of this site’s nearly 15 year history, I’ve managed to spill copious amounts of virtual ink covering the remarkably prolific, Israeli-born, Costa Rican-based singer/songwriter, musician and JOVM mainstay MAGON. 

Earlier this year, the prolific JOVM mainstay released his ninth album, Wedding Song, which featured two tracks I managed to write about here:

  • Album track “The Wedding Song,” a 70s Laurel Canyon/AM rock-like number featuring shimmering guitars, a shuffling yet propulsive rhythm and a glistening and soulful guitar solo paired with MAGON’s unerring knack for crafting catchy hooks. But under the slick and seemingly effortless craftsmanship is a song that feels much like the contented sigh of someone who after much effort and struggle, has found the true, long-lasting love they’ve long hoped for. The song marks the one-year anniversary of MAGON’s wedding to his now-wife Alexa, and is dedicated to their love.

  • “Portobello’s On The Run,” a mediative and folksy bit of  Nick Drake-like psych folk anchored around an ethereal and old-timey mellotron flute lines, strummed acoustic guitar and tight-drum pattern paired with the Israeli-born, Costa Rican-based artist’s plaintively singing whimsical yet introspective lyrics.

Closing out 20240, the JOVM mainstay will be releasing his 10th — yeah, 10th overall and third this year y’all — album, World Peace. The forthcoming album’s first single “Stoned Seclusion Blues” reveals yet another shift in sound direction, with the track seemingly drawing from the Madchester sound of The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses and others with the track anchored around a languid and and fuzzy guitar line, tambourine-driven percussion and swaggering boom bap-like drums, soaring and swelling strings paired with the JOVM’s easy-going and laconic delivery and catchy hooks.

The accompanying video by Alexa & Magon, stars presumably their children and their dog, who happily chases after the family vehicle, and footage of the kids bopping around to the song with psychedelic imagery in the background.