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Real Life Color
Electronic · 2010 · 10 tracks · 42m

Real Life Color

Magic Man

A fragile, gorgeous collection of bedroom synth-pop recorded on laptops in the French countryside. Warm, ghostly, and beautifully unpolished.

January 25, 2010 · Arcade Sound Ltd.

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A warm, sun-drenched nostalgia wrapped in fragile, laptop-recorded intimacy.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 42m
01
Swell Song
2:15
02
Monster
5:51
03
Darling
4:55
04
South Dakota
3:58
05
Daughter
4:08
06
Like Sailors
4:48
07
Layers
2:59
08
Polygons
5:02
09
Nest
5:41
10
Darling (reprise)
3:07
Moments Worth Listening For
The fragile, tape-hiss warmth of the opening synth line on Swell Song, setting a deeply intimate, lo-fi tone.
The sprawling, six-minute slow burn of Monster, where the simple drum machine pattern gradually anchors a sea of ghostly vocal echoes.
The transition into Darling (reprise), where the familiar melody returns stripped of its electronic pulse, leaving only a skeletal, quiet farewell.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Real Life Color sound next to the rest of Magic Man's catalogue?

Low Energy-2.8σ

It runs markedly cooler and more held-back than this artist's baseline.

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