Magic Island

Magic Island is among the part projects from the mysterious and prolific acidity folky Damien Youngsters. In Magic Isle, he plays every one of the musical instruments except piano and creates the music, while vocalist Robyn Nice has piano and creates the lyrics. Like Damien Youngsters, Magic Island displays the impact of past due-’60s and early-’70s United kingdom folk-psychedelia, especially from Syd Barrett and Green Floyd, without sounding embarrassingly derivative. Whether because of Nice’s lyrics or not really, Magic Island’s eyesight is darker, even more depressing, and even more lethargic than Damien Youth’s single outings. Still, it isn’t downright gloomy or hopeless, which is melodically quite, also if the gauzy atmosphere and disembodied phrases sometimes supply the impression of somebody falling right into a narcotic haze. Their 1999 Compact disc, Small, was documented and blended in three times, though it noises more effectively created and organized than many albums that consider ten times for as long.