Last year for a week until Sunday 21 December, Mr Magpie made their second album available to listen and download on Bandcamp, at Name Your Price. It didn't feature in our Best Of 2025 because the album was being released this year.
It is an extraordinarily great album. Now it has been released on Vinyl and as a download. The guys from the Peak District offer up a heady mix of restrained Jangle with a hint of Gentle Psych Pop and journeys across both Folk Rock and Classic Rock.
The album is wonderfully restrained allowed the atmospherics and vocal to breathe. It is almost chilled at times. Nervous Breakdown is the song that probably best expresses what they are about incorporating all the genres that I've previously mentioned.
The Boy You Never Knew is splendid Folk, still a hint of Jangle, but acoustically led as a lot of the album is. The song is hypnotic. Dead Orchard Voodoo is a haunting listen until a surprise chaotic Slide Guitar outburst at the close.
Meet Me By The Lighthouse is lyrically adept and almost a Porch or Campfire song. Lloyd Loom is almost Americana and Amanita allows you to envisage endless beautiful landscapes. The album is very laidback yet a cracking listen. Too few bands grip you with such restraint.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on Vinyl and as a download.
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