Seasonally Affective, by Piano Magic

Seasonally Affective

by Piano Magic

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1.	Wrong French 05:37	buy track
2.	Non-Fiction 03:47	buy track
3.	General Electric With Fairy Lights 04:22	buy track
4.	Wintersport / Cross Country 08:31	buy track
5.	Angel Pie / Magic Tree 04:47	buy track
6.	Magnetic North 04:22	buy track
7.	For Engineers A 04:52	buy track
8.	For Engineers AA 04:18	buy track
9.	Fun of the Century 05:01	buy track
10.	The Sharpest Knife In The Drawer 04:24	buy track
11.	Industrial Cutie 04:40	buy track
12.	I Am The Sub-Librarian 04:25	buy track
13.	Music For Rolex 04:13	buy track
14.	Music For Annahbird 02:43	buy track
15.	Music For Wasps 05:20	buy track
16.	Me at 19 09:43	buy track
17.	How Does it Feel? 04:48	buy track
18.	French Mittens 03:11	buy track
19.	Biggest Lie 08:27	buy track
20.	Amongst The Books, An Angel 03:59	buy track
21.	C'est Un Mauvais Présage Lorsque Ton Aureole A Tombe 04:42	buy track
22.	There's No Need For Us To Be Alone There's No Need For Us To Be Alone 04:09	buy track
23.	The Canadian Brought Us Snow 07:17	buy track
24.	Sketch For Joanne 04:33	buy track
25.	My Password Is A Dead Aunt's Name 06:07	buy track

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Piano Magic began as a hobby in a Muswell Hill spare room in Summer 1996 but grew legs when Glen Johnson sent a demo to Che Records who released it as it stood. "Wrong French" won the heart of John Peel’s night owl audience and that of Melody Maker who awarded it Single Of The Week back when it meant something. Since then, Piano Magic has blossomed into a sort of shady members only club that's allowed the likes of Darren Hayman (Hefner), Simon Rivers (Bitter Springs), Peter Astor (The Wisdom Of Harry) through it's doors, most notably on 1999's "Low Birth Weight" album. Over their releases for 15 or so labels between '96 and the present day, Piano Magic have bastardised Kraftwerkian smallbeat industrialism ("Popular Mechanics"), deformed regal Baroque pop ("A Trick Of The Sea") and miscarriaged odes of sorry to the war dead ("Artists' Rifles"). They've also played 48 concerts, gotten medium-to-big in Spain (headlining a main stage at this year’s Benicassim Festival) and, most recently, signed in blood with 4AD (their soundtrack to Bigas Luna's "Son De Mar" movie leaked out in August).

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released October 22, 2001

“Seasonally Affective” collects all Piano Magic a-sides and b-sides between 1996 and 2000 including their very first recordings, now deleted, for Che, Wurlitzer Jukebox and Piao! – labels the band has outlived. It also makes the obscurities for tiny European labels like Acetone, Debut and Alice in Wonder easily accessible for the first time. Rarer than rare is “Sketch For Joanne” – a track for Dutch radio station VPRO’s Xmas compilation – of which only 50 copies were made.

The band's now-permanent members : Glen Johnson, Miguel Marin, Alasdair Steer and Jerome Tcherneyan are currently working on a new album for release on 4AD early next year.

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