Gross Magic – Sweetest Touch by snipelondon
VIDEO: “Sweetest Touch” (Bowlegs Session)
UK band Gross Magic has signed to Fat Possum for North America. The band’s debut EP, Teen Jamz is available on iTunes now and will see a proper physical release on Oct. 11. The band is also set to make its US live debut in October, dates listed below.
More about Gross Magic:
Brighton based artist Gross Magic (aka Sam McGarrigle) began life floating through purple clouds and serenading moonlit lakes in the homemade video for ‘Waiting For You’, an unashamedly lo-fi but surprisingly brilliant attempt to recreate the music of Prince, Bowie and the late Michael Jackson.
A few months after the demise of his former band Hocus Tocus, McGarrigle began putting down some ideas for a series of demos, the result was the Teen Jamz EP, 5 tracks recalling the pop sensibility of ELO, the grunge riffs of early Nirvana, the care-free adolescence of “Loser”-era Beck and the lo-fi production of Ariel Pink.
Tour Dates
10/13 Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/14 Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/15 Brooklyn, NY, Cameo Gallery
10/18 Toronto, ONT, Horseshoe Tavern
10/19 New York, NY, CMJ
10/20 New York, NY, Bowery Ballroom
10/21 New York, NY, CMJ
10/22 New York, NY, CMJ
10/25 Buffalo, NY, Mohawk Place #
10/26 Wooster, OH, College of Wooster #
10/27 Chicago, IL, Empty Bottle #
10/28 Columbia, MO, University Of Missouri #
10/29 St Louis, MO, Billiken Club #
11/01 San Francisco, CA, Bottom Of The Hill %
11/02 Los Angeles, CA, The Echo %
11/03 San Diego, CA, Casbah %
11/04 Phoenix, AZ, Crescent Ballroom %
11/05 Tucson, AZ, Solar Culture Gallery %
11/07 Austin, TX, Emo’s %
* = w/ Yuck
# = w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
% = w/ Youth Lagoon
Gross Magic
Teen Jamz EP
(Fat Possum)
Street Date: October 11, 2011
1. We’re Awake Tonight
2. Teen Jamz
3. Sweetest Touch
4. Can’t Ignore My Heart
5. Dream Gurl
6. Yesterdays (iTunes exclusive bonus track)