MAGOO
THE BIG COMEBACK STARTS HERE
Release Date: 3rd Jun, 2002Cat No: DISCO0205
Format: CDS
Tracks: The Big Comeback Starts Here ~ Wives Of Farmers ~ 2 Dearborn
The band continue to write and record for the new album which unlike
previous affairs will hopefully see it's release in the same year as
it's recorded. Meanwhile as previously mentioned Magoo took a day out
of their schedule to record three tracks for release on the Shifty Disco
singles club, which is now called (we know not why) The Star Harbour.
Magoo's appearance on The Star Harbour features three acoustic tracks
namely 'The Big Comeback Starts Here' (which appeared in a very different
guise on the back of the A To Z And Back Again single for Chemikal Underground
back in 1997), Wives Of Farmers (which is a Grandaddy song that appeared
on the back of Grandaddy's 'he's simple, he's dumb, he's the pilot single'
and '2 Dearborn' (which appeared in (again) a different guise on the
Realist Week album released last year on Global Warming.
Formed in 1993, Magoo initially released several singles on local East
Anglian indie Noisebox before being snapped up by Glasgow's legendary
Chemikal Underground, administered by The Delgados with whom they toured
frequently.
1997 saw the debut long player ' The Soateramic Sounds Of Magoo' lauded
in the music press Melody Maker said :
"There's just so much fucking stuff here, I know exactly where
to start. There's a whole crew of unaffiliated bands out there making
pop ephanies a daily occurrence and we lust ignore them as obscurantist
indie. Last year Lazerboy gave us an hour of incredible out-rock and
idyll-pop that prefigured and surpassed the new Blur LP"
1998's follow up 'Vote the pacifist ticket today' was equally if not
better received, The Guardian got all hot under the collar :
"Legend has it that the Boo Radleys' Martin Carr was in line to
produce Vote The Pacifist Ticket Today, before mysteriously pulling
out at the last minute to start work on the Boos' Kingsize album. Carr
must have written and recorded hard, because he beat Magoo's second
LP to the record shops by a couple of weeks. But that doesn't alter
the fact that the Norwich somnambulists are everything the Boo Radleys
are not quite brave enough to be. Sinister (Get It On Superhero), reptilian
(Cable Tuned And Sabre Toothed), resolutely indie but hugely ambitious,
Vote The Pacifist Ticket Today is the nearest thing Britain has to the
labyrinthine, mutant DIY thinking behind The Flaming Lips and Guided
By Voices."