New Music: Magdalena Bay – Venice

It’s a welcome return to the blog for LA’s Magdalena Bay (Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin) who are back following July’s Mine with Venice: another choice cut of dreamy yet oddly doomy West Coast electro.

With a bright, early 80s/peak 00s pop feel to the track, the arrangement is deceptively upbeat. Think Madonna’s Holiday fused with Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and you get a flavour of the sultry yet laidback sensuality of Venice.

The deception lies in the clever lyrical concept; are the two lovers alone, or the last lovers left alive? Love can make us delirious at times, but what if the world gets caught up in a similar, less divine, madness. Love makes a new reality, but when others create a new and darker one, can love and lovers survive?

Mica has this to say about the ideas behind the intriguing dichotomy between the sound and the lyrics on Venice: “We wanted it to be a chill indie pop tune with an undercurrent about the world possibly ending. We tried to inject a little weirdness in there. Our own experiences of walking down the Venice Beach boardwalk probably helped with that.”

Venice is out now, with the track streaming on Spotify and also available for download on Bandcamp.  For more details on the track, band as well upcoming live dates, be sure to check the duo out over on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.