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‘Too many people try to over-intellectualise music’: RIP Magic, London’s buzziest buzz band

Splicing indie-rock with weird electronics and snottily menacing vocals, this duo stick out from the rest of the capital’s scene – and have turned Tyler, the Creator’s head

The London band RIP Magic, by contrast, present something genuinely exciting: snottily menacing vocals, sandpapery textures and a sound that splits the difference between 90s experimental electronic music, 2010s indie-rock, weird European cold wave and Nine Inch Nails – but even that doesn’t begin to capture their irreverence. RIP Magic haven’t released any music yet, but there was such chatter around a recent string of sold-out shows at the London dive Mascara Bar that even a friend from Australia was texting me asking if I knew anything about them. That directness is a response to the kind of projects the pair have been working on over the past few years: soundscapes for the Royal Academy, ambient tracks, stuff that makes it easy to get “lost in the sauce”, as Pini puts it.

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