Magic Arm - Images Rolling (2013) [FLAC]

Magic Arm - Images Rolling (2013) [FLAC]

Released: 2013
Genre: Pop/Rock
Style: Indie Rock
Source: CD (log + cue)
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 900 kbps
Bits Per Sample: 16
Sample Rate: 44,100 Hz

01 Put Your Collar Up
02 You Have Won
03 Warning Sign
04 Great Life
05 Lanes
06 Type Endlessly
07 Is History
08 Tonight I Walk
09 Under The Eaves
10 The Flood

With a intervening four year gap, during which he’s moved house, learnt to play even more instruments and generally further reorganised life around his music, Images Rolling provides the world with another kaleidoscopic mixture of live instruments, pleasantly ambling soundtracks and moments of orchestral splendour, all intertwined with suggestive tinges of psychedelic rock (see Is History).

Magic Arm’s inter-continental and more often retrospective style, mixes modern and vintage ideals, summoning up a contemporary appeal that he lovingly mingles with a uniquely rose tinted view of late ’60’s flowered up pop. Whilst his outlook may seem lavish at various junctures, the intimacy of this project remains. The tunes remain highly personal, intricate and more importantly, intensely appealing. The music and performances, are of course perfectly credible, with nothing left to the vagaries (or luxuries) of a computer’s cutting room folder.

In short, Images Rolling appears to be an individual’s long awaited masterpiece. A relaxed effort, that’s been carefully considered with only the ripest of ideas making the final cut. Nearer the end of the album, you really do feel as though you have been taken on a journey. Under The Eaves is a contradiction in simplicity versus complexity. The chords are easy to remember, but the layering and overall arrangement builds up to a gentle crescendo, that for Rigelsford is pleasantly epic.