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| Released | August 24, 2009 | |||
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| Length | 40:20 | |||
| Label | Something in Construction | |||
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Seek Magic is the debut studio album by American musician Dayve Hawke under the alias Memory Tapes. It was released on August 24, 2009 [1] by the label Something in Construction.
The cover art features an image of the painting Mirage by Tomory Dodge. [2]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.0/10 [3] |
| Metacritic | 86/100 [4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| DIY | 9/10 [6] |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10 [7] |
| MusicOMH | [8] |
| NME | 8/10 [9] |
| Now | 4/5 [10] |
| Pitchfork | 8.3/10 [11] |
| Q | [12] |
| The Sunday Times | [13] |
| Uncut | [14] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Seek Magic received an average score of 86, based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [4] The album has an 8.0 rating on review aggregator website AnyDecentMusic? and is certified an "ADM Chart Topper". [3]
Seek Magic was awarded the title of "Best New Music" by Pitchfork , with critic Ian Cohen praising the album as "achingly gorgeous dance-pop that captures both the joy of nostalgia and the melancholic sense that we're grasping for good times increasingly out of reach". [11] In a 2019 retrospective piece on chillwave for Stereogum , Cohen cited Seek Magic as "probably the best" chillwave album released in 2009, "and, by definition, probably the greatest chillwave album of all time". [15]
All music is composed by Memory Tapes.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Swimming Field" | 3:30 |
| 2. | "Bicycle" | 5:19 |
| 3. | "Green Knight" | 4:33 |
| 4. | "Pink Stones" | 3:54 |
| 5. | "Stop Talking" | 7:04 |
| 6. | "Graphics" | 6:31 |
| 7. | "Plain Material" | 4:50 |
| 8. | "Run Out" | 4:39 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bicycle" (Horrors Cosmic Dub) | 5:54 |
| 2. | "Graphics" (Remodel Edit) | 3:35 |
| 3. | "Walk Me Home" | 16:53 |
| 4. | "Treeship" | 22:20 |
Notes
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)Dayve Hawk, better known by his stage name Memory Tapes, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer, and the former frontman of the Philadelphia-based band, Hail Social.
Chillwave is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It loosely emulates 1980s electropop while engaging with notions of memory and nostalgia. Common features include a faded or dreamy retro pop sound, escapist lyrics, psychedelic or lo-fi aesthetics, mellow vocals, slow-to-moderate tempos, effects processing, and vintage synthesizers.
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