The track will appear on the avant-pop duo's upcoming second LP, Imaginal Disk
The wonderfully strange pop duo Magdalena Bay are back with a new song, “Image,” from their upcoming album, Imaginal Diskout Aug. 23 via Mom + Pop Music.
“Image” is a spaced-out dancefloor delight that reaches for the inescapable (sometimes disconcerting) allure of self-reinvention. “But oh my god/Make me in your image/Ooh, so hot/Through a two-way mirror,” sings Mica Tenenbaum over production from Matt Lewin that pairs a propulsive disco beat with a cosmic array of glossy, sparkling synths (that take on a harder, speaker-rattling edge as the song progresses).
The track arrives with a video directed by Amanda Kramer, which finds Tenenbaum in a waiting room ahead of her appointment to receive a new “imaginal disk.” When it's her turn, though, the appointment turns into a mid-90s computer graphics nightmare, with a devilish red creature chasing down Tenenbaum before finally getting her into an operating chair and looming over her with a comically large pair of scissors.
“Close your eyes,” the band said in a statement. “Imagine a brand new, better you. Now wait 22 minutes. Now open your eyes. Meet your brand new image! Isn’t it amazing that the meat in our heads can do this?”
“Image” follows the previously released Imaginal Disk song, “Death and Romance,” which he dropped back in May. The upcoming album marks Magdalena Bay's second LP, following their celebrated 2021 debut, Mercurial World.
The band will embark on a North American tour in support of Imaginal Disk — aptly dubbed “The Imaginal Mystery Tour” — later this summer. The trek kicks off Sept. 3 at the Fillmore in San Francisco and wraps up with two nights at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, Oct. 2 and 3.
