Magdalena Bay – Fully-Featured, Total Entertainment Scenario

[A piece I wrote about Magdalena Bay for Kaput in June 2022]

Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, aka Magdalena Bay, hail from Florida and LA somehow filtered through Tokyo’s Shibuya-kei hey day. As they burst into what seems to be a greatest hits set at London’s XOYO, they somehow embody thirty to forty years of utterly different pop music all at once. This hour plus set from two insanely charismatic twenty-somethings, possesses all the carefree abandon of hippy-dom at its height but with the intentional brilliance of the Ableton generation.

‘Hysterical Us’ by Magdalena Bay

Like Louis Cole, Genevieve Artadi or Jacob Collier, this duo seem to be part of a growing gang remaking and re-remembering pop from a different vantage point. For many a decade it was just sort of assumed that kids who do jazz, ah… not cool! And yet here we are. Tonight Magdalena Bay variously embody Michael McDonald, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Madonna, and the hardest working jazz trio you’ve ever seen. Every move is cuteness and precision, steely-eyed and joyful…

You can read the whole review here:

https://kaput-mag.com/critics_en/magdalena-bay-live-fully-featured-total-entertainment-scenario/