New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Imaginal Disk, the sophomore album from acclaimed duo Magdalena Bay, is slated for release on August 23 via Mom+Pop Music. Additionally, a new song, "Image," has debuted alongside a video directed by
Amanda Kramer.
"Close your eyes," the band says. "Imagine a brand new, better you. Now wait 22 minutes. Now open your eyes. Meet your brand new image! Isn't it amazing that the meat in our heads can do this?"
Following the "Death & Romance" video, which found True - played by the band's Mica Tenenbaum - getting an "imaginal disk" upgrade inserted into her forehead, the "Image" video goes back in time to the waiting room where True stood by for her first fitting. Although disk infomercials playing on the televisions initially get True excited, she's thrown for a loop when the upgraded consciousness she signed up for is different than what she expected.
"Image" follows initial album offering, "Death & Romance," which Vulture praised as "kaleidoscopic," while PAPER commended the duo for another "glassy, sprawling prog-pop odyssey that builds from a tightly wound jam into something seemingly designed to hit the back walls of stadiums."
Additionally, the band will hit the road for The Imaginal Mystery Tour this fall, an extensive run of North American headline shows with stops in New York, Los Angeles,
Chicago and more—see full tour routing below.
Aside from last year's EP, mini mix vol. 3, Imaginal Disk marks Magdalena's Bay first full-length project since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album, Mercurial World, in 2021. Vulture praised the album as "one of 2021's best pop statements," while Pitchfork celebrated the duo's "magic power" of sounding "like whatever you grew up with, whenever that was," and PopMatters commended the album for "providing a blueprint for a new generation of electronic pop."
Magdalena Bay is the Los Angeles by way of Miami duo consisting of Mica Tenenbaum (vocals, producer, songwriter) and Matthew Lewin (producer, songwriter). The two first met at an after-school music program in Miami where they grew up, bonding over shared musical influences and eventually starting a prog rock band Tabula Rasa. That band broke up, but when Tenenbaum and Lewin crossed paths again in college, they reconnected with the goal of making something closer to pop music that blends retro and futuristic elements under the moniker Magdalena Bay. They released a series of EPs leading up to their critically acclaimed debut album Mercurial World in 2021 and went on to sell out their first headlining tour, play numerous festivals around the world— including Coachella in 2023, tour with Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek,
Flume and collaborate with Lil Yachty, JIHYO, Blu DeTiger and more.
Tracklisting
1. She Looked Like Me!
2. Killing Time
3. True Blue Interlude
4. Image
5. Death & Romance
6. Fear, Sex
7. Vampire in the Corner
8. Watching T.V.
9. Tunnel Vision
10. Love Is Everywhere
11.
Feeling DiskInserted?
12. That's My Floor
13. Cry for Me
14.
Angel on a Satellite
15. The Ballad of Matt & Mica
MAGDALENA BAY LIVE:
September 3—San Francisco, CA—The Fillmore
September 5—Portland, OR—Wonder Ballroom
September 6—Vancouver, BC—Commodore Ballroom
September 7—Seattle, WA—Neptune Theatre
September 10—Denver, CO—Gothic
September 12—Omaha, NE—The Waiting Room
September 13—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue
September 14—Chicago, IL—Thalia Hall
September 15—Chicago, IL—Thalia Hall
September 17—Philadelphia, PA—Brooklyn Bowl Philly
September 18—Boston, MA—Royale
September 20—New York, NY—Brooklyn Steel
September 21—Washington, D.C.—9:30 Club
September 22—Carrboro, NC—Cat's Cradle
September 24—Atlanta, GA—Variety Playhouse
September 25—Nashville, TN—Brooklyn Bowl
September 27—Fort Worth, TX—Tulips
September 28—Austin, TX—Scoot Inn
October 1—Phoenix, AZ—Crescent Ballroom
October 2—Los Angeles, CA—The Fonda Theatre
October 3—Los Angeles, CA—The Fonda Theatre
