Oh boy. 2020..."Don't complain, don't explain", right? But in the six years since since Magik Markers' Surrender To The Fantasy, lots happened ! 2020 was meant as a sweet'n'sour commentary on this already-incisive year way before COVID and everything else; now, the Markers' time-stamped album statement is poised to hit even harder, its exterior further textured by coarse residue of the glue that binds us all together. Fortunately, the music...
2020! Now it can be told: the charade of a world without new Magik Markers records (six-plus years!) has finally ended. In these times of contagion fables and hacky blockbuster n95 disaster imagery IRL, Markers emerge again like three Lazarus from their three individual firmaments, just in the nick of the end of time.
What Magik Markers do best is listening, and as John Shaw, Pete Nolan and Elisa...
