Magdalena Bay On How Flash Gordon, Peter Gabriel, Björk’s Dancer In The Dark Score & More Influenced Their High-Concept New Album Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay are bringing back the heady concept album. Much of contemporary pop music is concerned with past trauma, astrological signs, and capital-V Vulnerability, and it feels like ridiculously conceptual pop music has fallen to the wayside in lieu of self-mythologization and not-so-subtle autobiography. On the other hand, the pop duo comprising Mica Tennenbaum and Matthew Lewin made a record about a character named True, whose body rejects a “disk upgrade” forced into their forehead...

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