The Magic Numbers: The Runaway | CD review

(Heavenly) Only a year separated the Magic Numbers' sparkling eponymous debut and 2006's misfiring Those the Brokes, which saw only one song clocking in at under four minutes and several over five. Their four-year absence since suggests a major rethink, and Björk producer Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nick Drake's strings arranger – the now late Robert Kirby – have sculpted a darker, more sumptuous sound around songs full of regrets and apologies. Amid layers of harmonies and reverb, Kirby's goss...

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