New band of the day – Gross Magic (No 1,045)

Sam McGarrigle feeds his favourite 80s tunes through an Ariel Pink filter to create an ultra-vivid dream of perfect popHometown: Brighton.The lineup: Sam McGarrigle (vocals, music).The background: This is great. Apologies for giving away the punchline, but it is. Or rather, he is, and we say "he" though he sounds like a girl, always a favourite of ours. He is Sam McGarrigle, a Brighton boy, barely out of his teens, who used to be in a band called Hocus Tocus and is now operating as a UK alternat...

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