- Friday 4 July
"Underrated pop messiahs at the top of their game," is how music magazine NME dubbed American duo Magdalena Bay in a glowing review of their 2024 album Imaginal Disk. And they are far from the only ones to praise the album, which fully demonstrates the duo's ability to combine pop music's most lofty ambitions with experimental undercurrents.
The two musicians Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin formed the duo in 2016 and became a hot name on the alternative pop scene with their debut album Mercurial World (2021), where the union of progressive tendencies, synthpop and big hooks was already present. With Imaginal Disk, they have really made their mark with a thoroughly retro-futuristic universe that references pop history far and wide, while sending pop music into completely new and sci-fi sounding and danceable stratospheres.
Magdalena Bay manage to orchestrate their epic bangers with an inventive visual side that can be enjoyed in their videos, but which is also expressed on stage, where they appear as born performers. A visionary pop show awaits at Roskilde this summer.
