Born and raised in London, but made in the ever-fruitful alternative music scene in Brighton, the debut single from Opal Mag adds another flavour of interest to a city already bursting with riches.
A nugget of lo-fi fuzz-kissed dream-pop that skates across stardust but remains gnarled at the corners by grit and mealy gristle, ‘Looking For’ opens Opal Mag’s account with a heavy-hitting high-stakes romance. Tear-swept and unforgiving, the track drives insistently forwards in one grandiose, surging charge of shimmering synths, swirling guitars and sweetened Harriet Wheeler-esque vocals. And at its finish line blasts a fire of such thunder-cracking noise as to engulf all these heart-on-sleeve outpourings of connection and pure love in one beautifully sprawling storm.
Photo by Rani Maria
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