Instead, the inclusive sentiments throughout the record ring thoroughly sincere, recalling all the best pop queen messaging from past decades, from Madonna‘s “Express Yourself” to Kelis‘ “Emancipate.”
With track titles like “Spiritual Awakening,” “The Soul Has No Gender” and “Love & Appreciation,” Magic could come across as cliché as “Live, Love, Laugh” scrawled across a disco ball. “Here Comes the Night” came next, with an invitation to the after-hours for the dreamers across a ABBA-esque synth flare.
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“You want to be free, you want to express yourself, and I think when people are free and do what they are supposed to do, you vibrate on another level, and that’s what you’re supposed to do.”Īgnes began to carve out more of the record, influenced by acts like Giorgio Moroder, Sun Ra and Sylvester, with a throbbing emancipation anthem of a follow-up in the form of “24 Hours” – one of the year’s best songs, easily. “Disco for me – it’s the sound of being free…even though it can be sad, it can be dark, it always has this kind of uplifting thing around it…it’s like you stand on top of a mountain, you feel like the wind in your hair,” she told MuuMuse last year.
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The tight set of 11 tracks – four of which are interludes, which truthfully makes this more of an EP – arrives ahead of a series of singles: last year’s “Fingers Crossed” set the tone for the sound of the rest of the record a kind of ecstatic dance floor devotional – or, in her own words, “spiritual disco.” “What today seems like insanity, tomorrow might be reality…”Īrguably, she’s almost always been there: after kicking off her Idol 2005 win with her 2005 self-titled debut and follow-up Stronger a year later, she found her footing with 2008’s euphoric dance-pop foray Dance Love Pop, including lead single “On & On” and the soaring, string-laden global smash of a re- leeeee-ase you surely know and love her best for, “Release Me.”Ī few years later, she dug deeper still onto the dance floor with 2012’s incredible Veritas, and took a few years off to regroup and refocus before returning with the entrancing Nothing Can Compare EP in 2019, a more experimental offering, inspired by Donna Summer and Paris Is Burning, that showcased an artist still in transition.īut with her fifth studio album Magic Still Exists, released Friday (October 22), the Swedish vocal powerhouse has never sounded so sure of exactly who and where she’s meant to be right now.
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