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Here We Go Magic (album)

album by Here We Go Magic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ5737556 ↗
Source-derived summary

Here We Go Magic is the 2009 debut album from Brooklyn-based indie rock band Here We Go Magic, recorded mostly by the band's lead singer Luke Temple.

Background and recording

The album was recorded by Temple at home on a 4-track recorder over a two-month period. Temple described the recording: "I just had one tom, one microphone, a synth and an acoustic guitar. I didn’t have a full drum kit or normal bass, it was just all synth stuff that I did myself."

Critical reception

Tim DiGravina, writing for AllMusic, gave the album a 3.5/5 rating, saying "There's a lot to admire in Here We Go Magic's dreamy, hazy melodies, and it's easy to get lost in the repetitive, minimalist guitar strumming that centers half of the tracks". Brian Gearing of Glide, gave it a four-star rating, calling it "hypnotic from the opening notes to the closing silence", and stating that it "doesn’t just sound awesome; it compels you to listen". The NME's Rob Webb was also impressed, giving the album 7/10. Eric Harvey of Pitchfork Media described the album as "hazy electronic textures, endlessly-spiraling lyrical loops, occasional forays into extended sections of ambience and noise", giving the album 7.4 out of 10. Alex Denney, writing for The Quietus, wrote "There isn't a duff moment on ...Magic exactly, but it's the opening salvo, with its lingering impression of small ideas stretched gauzily out, that really sings like firing synapses and leaves you wanting more". Barry Walters of SPIN gave it 7/10, calling it "Magic indeed".

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“Here We Go Magic (album)” enters the record as album by Here We Go Magic. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Here, Magic and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5737556. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Here We Go Magic (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.