rip magic announce "5words" 12" produced by james
Back in the radiant days of June, we were in London, organizing a few events around the LCD run at Brixton Academy, including a finale afterparty at a 24-hour club just down the street. We booked a bunch of our favorite DJs and, as we like to do, a band. We invited a new four-piece who’d been making stuff happen around the city: RIP Magic.
In a story that is far more fun to tell now than it was to experience in real time, the party almost went sideways before doors and RIP very nearly didn’t play (worth noting: not their fault). We squeaked it out at the last minute and the band went on sometime around 1AM, all that nervous energy unwound in a performance that hit like a ton of bricks. They finished with a song that we couldn’t get out of our heads the next day, its simple refrain battling it out with the tinnitus.
That song is “5words” and it will arrive on March 6 as a 12” vinyl single. It’s produced by James and sounds like decades of music collapsing into the present, a loud-quiet-loud rock song that turns into a massive crescendo in the coda, another level unlocked, another gear found, before it’s over in a flash. Leave them wanting more, they say.
Another major selling point: the b-side is a remix from the god Maurice Fulton, his first DFA credit since those Syclops records became instant classics in 2008.