Magic Arm: Debut album, Make Lists Do Something OUT NOW!
Debut album, Make Lists Do Something OUT NOW!Swalf 16CD - 
CD // £8.99
18/05/09
Make Lists Do Something is the debut album from Magic Arm and features
the singles ‘Bootsy Bootsy‘, ‘Outdoor Games‘ and ‘Widths & Heights
"‘Move Out’’s sleazy bleep-funk, sounds like the best MIA
backing track you’ve never heard, while blues standard ‘Six Cold Feet
Of Ground’ is reimagined as a haunting electro-ballad.”
NME
Beck Style Maverick too restless for one musical guise. The Metro
“Hovering between the more playful side of early-Beta Band and
the Fisher Price folktronica of Kid Carpet, while musically Magic Arm
is often-igniting bleeps, lyrically ‘Make Lists, Do Something’ is awash
with vulnerable depth..”Clash.
"An album built on the foundations of unspoken trust, undisclosed
inventiveness and instinctive fragility"Gigwise
1 Widths And Heights
2 Bootsy Bootsy
3 Outdoor Games
4 Move Out
5 Coach House, The
6 Getting The Way
7 Slates On A Roof
8 Six Cold Feet Of Ground
9 Rested Bones
10 Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
11 People Need Order
12 Sound Of The Night
Click here to purchase vinyl or Buy now from
iTunes -
Hailed by Iron & Wine's Samuel Beam as 'the master of the loop pedal',
multi instrumentalist Marc Rigelsford, AKA the Manchester based Magic
Arm, is set to release ‘Widths and Heights’ on Switchflicker
Records in July. Splendidly eclectic, ‘Widths and Heights’
is a masterpiece of musicianship, with layers of sounds, bleeps and vocals
all fighting for supremacy over each other, yet working side by side to
produce a playfully organic gem, whilst at the same time serving the best
interests of pop music.
Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, always the baton bearer for new music, championed
Magic Arm’s last release, the ‘Outdoor Games’ EP, released
last year - After the successful release of the EP, which received critical
acclaim from the press, Marc locked himself away to write for four months,
and then spent a further six months in the studio to put the finishing
touches to ‘Widths and Heights’, and his debut album with
Robin Housman.
The b-side to ‘Widths and Heights’, ‘Ballad of Melody
Nelson’, is a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg classic which has now
become a regular in his live show. Marc was invited to perform a song
at an evening celebrating the French singer, and he proceeded to leave
his unmistakeable stamp all over the classic, to a fantastic response.
"Highlight of Glastonbury”
Steve Lamacq
“Irresistible summer hit.”
Artrocker
“The most innovative and sparkling new musician in Manchester”
Manchester Evening News