Mercurial World

2021, Oct 8

Apple Spotify Bandcamp Synthpop Dance-Pop Alt-Pop 99 Luminelle Recordings Indieheads 357 Pitchfork 8.0/10 The Needle Drop 8/10 All Music 4/5 Exclaim! 7/10 Under The Radar 8.5/10 Pop Matters 8/10 Northern Transmissions 7.7/10 The Guardian 3/5 Beats Per Minute 74% Sputnikmusic 2.9/5

Pitchfork 8.0/10 Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin’s fuzzy, rococo synthpop confections have a magic power: They sound like whatever you grew up with, whenever that was.

Under The Radar 8.5/10 With Y2K-nostalgia in full swing, it was only a matter of time before somebody seized on the aesthetics of the turn-of-the-century internet-obsessed. That band is newcomers Magdalena Bay. They teased their debut, Mercurial World, with a host of retro websites, music videos, and surreal and hilarious Tik Toks, adding to their ranks of terminally online pop fans through copious amounts of fish-eye lenses and neon colors.

Pop Matters 8/10 On 'Mercurial World,' Magdalena Bay weave disco, EDM, vaporwave, and video game music into a dense world of escapist charms and an inescapable structure.

The Guardian 3/5 The LA duo’s debut offers sultry grooves and wraithlike vocals alongside a mix of sweetness and distortion