Seek Magic

Seek Magic is the debut studio album by American musician Dayve Hawke under the alias Memory Tapes. It was released on August 24, 2009[1] by the label Something in Construction.

Seek Magic
Studio album by
Memory Tapes
ReleasedAugust 24, 2009
Genre
Length40:20
LabelSomething in Construction
Memory Tapes chronology
Seek Magic
(2009)		 Player Piano
(2011)

The cover art features an image of the painting Mirage by Tomory Dodge.[2]

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.0/10[3]
Metacritic86/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
DIY9/10[6]
Drowned in Sound9/10[7]
MusicOMH[8]
NME8/10[9]
Now4/5[10]
Pitchfork8.3/10[11]
Q[12]
The Sunday Times[13]
Uncut[14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Seek Magic received an average score of 86, based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[4] The album has an 8.0 rating on review aggregator website AnyDecentMusic? and is certified an "ADM Chart Topper".[3]

Seek Magic was awarded the title of "Best New Music" by Pitchfork, with critic Ian Cohen praising the album as "achingly gorgeous dance-pop that captures both the joy of nostalgia and the melancholic sense that we're grasping for good times increasingly out of reach".[11] In a 2019 retrospective piece on chillwave for Stereogum, Cohen cited Seek Magic as "probably the best" chillwave album released in 2009, "and, by definition, probably the greatest chillwave album of all time".[15]

Track listing

All music is composed by Memory Tapes.

No.TitleLength
1."Swimming Field"3:30
2."Bicycle"5:19
3."Green Knight"4:33
4."Pink Stones"3:54
5."Stop Talking"7:04
6."Graphics"6:31
7."Plain Material"4:50
8."Run Out"4:39
Rough Trade bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Bicycle" (Horrors Cosmic Dub)5:54
2."Graphics" (Remodel Edit)3:35
3."Walk Me Home"16:53
4."Treeship"22:20

Notes

  • On vinyl pressings of the album, the running order of "Pink Stones" and "Stop Talking" is reversed.

Notes
  1. Dombal, Ryan (August 19, 2009). "Memory Tapes Reveals Debut Album". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  2. Seek Magic (liner notes). Memory Tapes. Something in Construction. 2009. SICNOTE049.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. "Seek Magic by Memory Tapes reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  4. "Reviews for Seek Magic by Memory Tapes". Metacritic. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  5. Hoffman, K. Ross. "Memory Tapes – Seek Magic". AllMusic. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  6. Thompson, Erik (November 16, 2009). "Memory Tapes – Seek Magic". DIY. Archived from the original on January 9, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  7. Takru, Radhika (November 18, 2009). "Album Review: Memory Tapes – Seek Magic". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
  8. Milton, Jamie (December 7, 2009). "Memory Tapes – Seek Magic". MusicOMH. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  9. "Memory Tapes: Seek Magic". NME. 2009.
  10. Bimm, Jordan (May 20, 2010). "Memory Tapes". Now. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  11. Cohen, Ian (November 18, 2009). "Memory Tapes: Seek Magic". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
  12. "Memory Tapes: Seek Magic". Q (282): 122. January 2010.
  13. Cairns, Dan (November 22, 2009). "Memory Tapes: Seek Magic". The Sunday Times. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  14. "Memory Tapes: Seek Magic". Uncut (152): 116. January 2010.
  15. Cohen, Ian (June 25, 2019). "Chillwave At 10: The Essential Tracks". Stereogum. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
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