Listen: Magic Island – “Baby Blu”
16 October 2013, 14:33
| Written by
Charlotte Krol
Experimental Berlin-based popstress Magic Island dishes out a new track just two months after the release of her debut EP, Intoxicated Sunset.
“Baby Blu” sounds like stripped-back Lana Del Rey, with Canadian Emma Czerny’s clipped vocals exerting complete control over honky-tonk keys and hip-hop rhythms. Sickly lyrics about romance and glistening percussion slip in and out whilst harmonies fall on top of each other. The closing oohs and aahs hark to the 90s RnB that fellow Canadian Grimes continually vows to make.
“Baby Blu” is taken from Magic Island’s upcoming EP, Wasted Dawn.
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