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Oct 29, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Lissyelle Laricchia (Magdalena Bay) and Mario Irellim (Grimes)

Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo Magdalena Bay (aka Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin) released a new album, Imaginal Disk, in August via Mom + Pop. Now they have shared a remix of the album’s “Image” by Grimes. Listen to “Image (Grimes Special)” below.

Grimes shared this quirky press statement about the remix, in the third person: “While recently under house arrest for illegally creating a super species of extremely large naked guinea pigs, Grimes is tentatively returning to music with a few remixes. This one seems extra good tho.”

Magdalena Bay simply added: “What she said.”

Stream Imaginal Disk here.

Read our rave 9/10 review of it here.

Read our review of Magdalena Bay’s September concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. here.

Imaginal Disk includes “Death & Romance,” a new song the band shared in May that was one of our Songs of the Week. Then they shared a sci-fi themed video for the song featuring UFOs, portals, and doppelgangers. Magdalena Bay also previously announced The Imaginal Mystery Tour, a U.S. tour this fall. When the album was announced, they shared its second single, “Image,” via a music video. “Image” was #1 on our Songs of the Week list. Then they shared its third single, “Tunnel Vision,” which again was #1 on our Songs of the Week. Then they shared its fourth single, “That’s My Floor,” via a trippy music video. It was again #1 on our Songs of the Week.

Imaginal Disk is the band’s sophomore full-length album and follows 2023’s mini mix vol. 3, a surprise-released a seven-song EP and an accompanying short film that featured videos for every song. The EP’s “Wandering Eyes” made our Songs of the Week list.

In 2021, Magdalena Bay released their debut album, Mercurial World, which was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2021 and several songs from the album were featured on our Top 130 Songs of 2021 list. Then in 2022 they released a deluxe edition of the album that included several bonus tracks and remixes incorporated into the main tracklist of the original album, presenting a completely different listening experience.

Read our interview with Magdalena Bay on Mercurial World here.

Magdalena Bay Tour Dates:

November 7—Reykjavík, IS—Iceland Airwaves
November 9—Berlin, DE—Columbia Theater (UPGRADE)
November 11—Amsterdam, NL—Melkweg Oz (SOLD OUT)
November 12—Paris, FR—La Machine Du Moulin Rouge (SOLD OUT)
November 13—London, UK—HERE at Outernet (SOLD OUT)
November 15—Manchester, UK—YES Pink Room (SOLD OUT)
November 16—Dublin, IE—Button Factory (SOLD OUT)
November 18—London, UK—HERE at Outernet (SOLD OUT)
November 19—London, UK—HERE at Outernet (SOLD OUT)

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