Here We Go Magic was an American indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. It was formed by core members Luke Temple, Michael Bloch and Peter Hale, in late 2008.
The band signed to Western Vinyl in 2008, followed by the five-piece group's signing to Secretly Canadian in 2009.
members: Luke Temple, Jennifer Turner, Peter Hale, Kristina Lieberson, Tyler Wood, Michael Bloch, Baptiste Ibar
formed in: New York City
labels: Secretly Canadian
genres: indie rock
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The first album has been described as "stream-of-conscious lyrics and swirls of psychedelic, lo-fi noise", and "insistently repetitive grooves and densely layered loops". NPR Music stated that its "colorful swirl of synthesizers and guitars ranges from electronic folk to psychedelia to lo-fi acoustic". Erik Adams, writing for The A.V. Club, saw it as an album of two distinct sides, "one full of hummable, groove-inflected bedroom folk, and the other populated by cascading waves of ambient white noise". Tim DiGravina, reviewing the album for Allmusic described it as "everything but the kitchen sink, stream of conscious composition...taking on a couple different and somewhat incongruous genres, from Afro-beat pop to freak folk to outright...
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