Your EDM
  • News
  • Featured
    • Editorials
    • Giveaways
    • Aspire To Inspire
    • Interviews
  • Music
    • House
      • Bass House
      • Commercial House
      • Deep House
      • Disco House
      • Dutch House
      • Electro House
      • Future House
      • Indie Dance
      • Nu-Disco
      • Progressive House
      • Tech House
    • Bass Music
      • Drum n Bass
      • Dubstep
      • Future Bass
      • Glitch Hop
      • Hardstyle
      • Moombahton
      • Trap
    • Trance
      • Trouse
      • Uplifting Trance
      • Tech Trance
    • Free Downloads
  • Discord
  • News
  • Featured
    • Editorials
    • Giveaways
    • Aspire To Inspire
    • Interviews
  • Music
    • House
      • Bass House
      • Commercial House
      • Deep House
      • Disco House
      • Dutch House
      • Electro House
      • Future House
      • Indie Dance
      • Nu-Disco
      • Progressive House
      • Tech House
    • Bass Music
      • Drum n Bass
      • Dubstep
      • Future Bass
      • Glitch Hop
      • Hardstyle
      • Moombahton
      • Trap
    • Trance
      • Trouse
      • Uplifting Trance
      • Tech Trance
    • Free Downloads
  • Discord
No Result
View All Result
Your EDM
No Result
View All Result
Home Misc Ambient

Slow Magic Stuns With Third Album, “Float”

by Matthew Meadow
October 26, 2017
in Ambient, Downtempo, Featured, Misc
Slow Magic Stuns With Third Album, “Float”

It’s been three years since Slow Magic’s last album, How To Run Away, was released. At the time, I was but a fledgling in the electronic music industry, hoping to understand my place. Listening to that album gave me a sense of hope and purpose, and I eagerly awaited the next time I’d be able to listen to a Slow Magic record.

With the release of this year’s Float, I feel even more empowered. My life has changed a lot in the past three years since How To Run Away, but in a lot of ways, it has remained the same. The same could be said of Slow Magic’s musical style – still employing his own unique form of percussion and rhythm, Float is an absolutely magical journey through time and space.

Comparisons could be made to Odesza’s work, and in fact they have been made, but they’re really only applicable in two dimensions. Yes, some of the musical patterns are similar, and both artists use percussion as their main instrument, but that’s about where the similarities end. Odesza’s duality is the group’s strong suit, as members Harrison and Clayton play off of one another… in the same way, Slow Magic’s solidarity is his strong suit. And to add to that, his anonymity.

Rather than using his mask as a gimmick to support less than stellar music, the mask is simply a part of Slow Magic’s persona, an extension of himself that adds to the magnificence and brilliance of the music being portrayed. Of course, a lot of this effect is lost when simply streaming music, but is amplified ten fold in a live setting.

The album varies between instrumental and vocal tracks, making maximum use of each. Vocal tracks are longer and more impactful, whereas instrumentals are more heavily focused on percussion; “Drum” perhaps hits the nail too on the head.

“My last album How To Run Away was about my life at that time, really just moving at all times, running away from any reality and problems. I wanted to capture that feeling of freedom of youth when nothing really seems to matter in the long term. A lot of the songs were about specific places in the world I was able to experience for the very first time,” says Slow Magic

“On Float I wanted to go back to the beginning of Slow Magic. I wanted to capture the raw sounds and feelings and freedom of my first albums Triangle and How To Run Away while expanding and evolving into something completely new. Most of the songs started very stripped down, just with piano and organic instruments. I let the songs write themselves without forcing them to go anywhere they didn’t naturally go.”

That organic flow is most evident in the tracklist of the album, as opposed to within each track individually. The songs ebb and flow, cascading into one another effortlessly, and with the beautiful efficiency a perfectly oiled machine.

While it may seem like I’m lumping praise upon praise on the album, it’s not perfect – nothing is. However, it’s almost difficult to find any faults in it when it so easily hypnotizes you and draws you in. Before you know it, you’ve forgotten to try and find any faults (as a critic), and you’re just along for the ride. Though, perhaps that is a fault in itself… while the album from front to back is wonderful, no singular track stands out in particular, as “On Yr Side” did in How To Run Away, for example.

Despite this minor flaw, the album is worthy of your attention for a mere forty-two minutes. Stream it below.

Tags: Album Reviewambientdowntempofloatinstrumentalslow magic
Previous Post

Marshmello Unmasks Part Of His Identity By Singing On His Own Track [DETAILS]

Next Post

JV. – nobody else

Matthew Meadow

Matthew Meadow

Lover of all bass music. I'm not afraid to speak my mind and put it to paper, and I do it often. I call Los Angeles my home, there's no better place for emerging EDM. Get in touch with me more via email or Twitter.

Next Post
JV. – nobody else

JV. - nobody else

No Result
View All Result

Facebook Twitter Instagram Twitch

Our Company

  • Contact Us
  • Join the community

Our Policies

  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Terms of Use
© 2020 Your EDM, LLC - All Rights Reserved
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Featured
    • Editorials
    • Giveaways
    • Aspire To Inspire
    • Interviews
  • Music
    • House
      • Bass House
      • Commercial House
      • Deep House
      • Disco House
      • Dutch House
      • Electro House
      • Future House
      • Indie Dance
      • Nu-Disco
      • Progressive House
      • Tech House
    • Bass Music
      • Drum n Bass
      • Dubstep
      • Future Bass
      • Glitch Hop
      • Hardstyle
      • Moombahton
      • Trap
    • Trance
      • Trouse
      • Uplifting Trance
      • Tech Trance
    • Free Downloads
  • Discord

© 2020 Your EDM, LLC - All Rights Reserved