Are You Alone?
The new Majical Cloudz album picks up where Impersonator left off: Stark, ethereal instrumentals buoyed by frontman Devon Welsh's unflinching voice. His counterpart, Matthew Otto, doesn't try and approximate backing musicians so much as create vapor trails where backing musicians might've stood. Their music is kind of an emotional strip show: Welsh knows it's a performance but he still ends up naked.
The Canadian two-piece are living embodiment of music's ability to stir true emotion.
Devon Welsh has opened himself up to a point where everything he is and has been is given to ‘Are You Alone?’
In song, Devon Welsh has always come over as a fragile soul. His third album with Majical Cloudz doesn't quite shake off the constant, grey cloudz that seem to be his constant companion – though it certainly has a go.
If you've seen Majical Cloudz frontman Devon Welsh live, you know that he performs his stark, unapologetically and straightforwardly emotion...
Devon Welsh, singer and primary lyricist of duo Majical Cloudz, has a habit of locking eyes with audience members during concerts, and not breaking the eye contact for uncomfortably long periods of time. It's become something of a legend around the band.
Review of Majical Cloudz forthcoming LP 'Are You Alone?', out October 16th on Matador. The lead single is "Downtown". Majical Cloudz play 10/17 in Toronto.
Adding absurdist moments to the sadness of being alone in a crowd, Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto provide a bewitchingly awkward intensity