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| Released | August 23, 2024 | |||
| Studio | Mag Bay HQ | |||
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| Length | 53:36 | |||
| Label | Mom + Pop | |||
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Imaginal Disk is the second studio album by American duo Magdalena Bay, released on August 23, 2024, through Mom + Pop Music. It received universal acclaim from critics.
The title shares its name with imaginal discs, the structures within the body of insect larvae that form part of their adult bodies. [2] For the album, Magdalena Bay reimagined the term as a distorted CD-shaped object inserted into a person's forehead.
Though not an official member of Magdalena Bay, frequent collaborator and former Tabula Rasa bandmate Nick Villa performs drums on most tracks on the album.
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 85/100 [4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The Line of Best Fit | 9/10 [2] |
| NME | [1] |
| Pitchfork | 7.7/10 [5] |
| Slant Magazine | [6] |
| Under the Radar |   [7] |
Imaginal Disk received a score of 85 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on eight critics' reviews, which the website categorized as "universal acclaim". [4] Nick Seip of Slant Magazine wrote that the album "finds [Magdalena Bay] at their most radical" and "offers a confluence of ideas that allows for strange detours through a sonic hall of mirrors". [6] Matthew Kim of The Line of Best Fit described it as "the product of a band intensely honing what they want to sound like and ending up with a style so unique that it's barely possible to describe. It's dorky and strange and dramatic, like the duo themselves." [2]
NME 's Otis Robinson found it to be "kaleidoscopic and overproduced in all the right ways" and "soundtracked by the same anachronistic, trippy synth-pop of its predecessor but grounded by the busk-y tambourine and analogue percussion of indie-pop". [1] Caleb Campbell of Under the Radar stated that "if the duo's previous record showed off their mastery of pop songcraft, Magdalena Bay feel more interested in exploring new textures and emotional range on Imaginal Disk". [7]
All tracks are written by Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "She Looked Like Me!" | 3:13 |
| 2. | "Killing Time" | 3:53 |
| 3. | "True Blue Interlude" | 1:49 |
| 4. | "Image" | 3:32 |
| 5. | "Death & Romance" | 5:14 |
| 6. | "Fear, Sex" | 2:32 |
| 7. | "Vampire in the Corner" | 3:22 |
| 8. | "Watching T.V." | 4:05 |
| 9. | "Tunnel Vision" | 5:05 |
| 10. | "Love Is Everywhere" | 3:14 |
| 11. | "Feeling Diskinserted?" | 0:58 |
| 12. | "That's My Floor" | 3:42 |
| 13. | "Cry for Me" | 5:07 |
| 14. | "Angel on a Satellite" | 4:03 |
| 15. | "The Ballad of Matt & Mica" | 4:00 |
| Total length: | 53:36 | |
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| Chart (2024) | Peak position |
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| UK Album Downloads (OCC) [8] | 33 |
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