Mrs. Magician hails from the pilings of various San Diego
piers. Like those pilings, their sound is encrusted with salty
hooks and drenched in waves of reverb. Strange Heaven
is the band’s first LP and magnifies the cacophonous lullabies of their four previous singles. The record is for connoisseurs of fuzz, distortion, echo and reverb who prefer
their noise to be tempered liberally with minor-key, bubblegum and sometimes haunting melody. These hoodads’ pop
songs are massive and exude a beach-shack, bummer-ofthe-summer posture.
Strange Heaven was produced by John Reis (of Hot
Snakes, Rocket from the Crypt, Night Marchers and Drive
Like Jehu) in the way of the old masters in order to achieve
a more musical hiss and crackle. The result is a timely
and timeless artifact
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