Magdalena Bay Release “Human Happens” & “Paint Me a Picture”
After sharing a pair of songs last month, Magdalena Bay unveils two more new tracks today: “Human Happens” and “Paint Me a Picture.”
“Here’s another pair of songs that complement each other,” says the band. “Different than the last, different than the next.”
This release follows “Second Sleep”––which debuted with an official video (below) directed by Amalia Irons––and “Star Eyes,” together serving as a spiritual successor to Imaginal Disk. The double single marked the band’s first new music since their universally acclaimed sophomore LP, and has garnered glowing praise from Stereogum, Pitchfork and The Fader, among others.
The sold-out Imaginal Mystery Tour has taken the band to Portola Music Festival and Austin City Limits, two massive dates at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Forever Cemetery and a slew of venues across the Pacific Northwest and South. They’ll continue to III Points Festival and venues across the country including Atlanta’s Coca-Cola Roxy, Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway and more. See full routing below and get tickets here.
Written and produced in full by the band’s Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, Imaginal Disk was widely touted as one of the best albums of last year. Featured on Best of 2024 lists from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Vogue, Paste Magazine—which named single “Death & Romance” the #1 song of the year—and more, Imaginal Disk found Magdalena Bay selling out every date of their North American and European/U.K. headline tours.
In celebration of the LP’s one-year anniversary, Magdalena Bay teased the release of the long-awaited album movie. Directed by Amanda Kramer and written and edited by Tenenbaum and Lewin, the film elaborates on the world of Imaginal Disk. The band revealed elements of the story in the videos for “Death & Romance,” “Image” and “That’s My Floor,” as well as in their performance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and on the road on the Imaginal Mystery Tour. Further details of the film and its release are imminent.
Magdalena Bay is the Los Angeles by way of Miami duo consisting of Mica Tenenbaum (vocals, producer, songwriter) and Matthew Lewin (producer, songwriter). The two first met at an after-school music program in Miami where they grew up, bonding over shared musical influences and eventually starting a prog rock band Tabula Rasa. That band broke up, but when Tenenbaum and Lewin crossed paths again in college, they reconnected with the goal of making something closer to pop music that blends retro and futuristic elements under the moniker Magdalena Bay. They released a series of EPs leading up to their critically acclaimed debut album, Mercurial World, in 2021 and went on to sell out their multiple headline tours, play numerous festivals around the world—including Coachella and Lollapalooza, tour with Billie Eilish, Charli xcx, Caroline Polachek, Flume and collaborate with Grimes, Lil Yachty, JIHYO, Blu DeTiger and more.
Press photo, credit Amalia Irons