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Magnog


The first Magnog demo cassette arrived in the Kranky P.O. Box in the summer of 1995, three ninety-minute cassettes inside an old leopard skin eyeglass case. Bassist Jeff Reilly told Willamette Week in January 1997 that Kranky called us the day they got our tape and.. asked us if we wanted to put a record out. We were like, 'Yeah!' We thought we would have to do our record ourselves... At the time the tapes arrived in Chicago the average age of the band's members was under twenty. The original demos were recorded on a four-track tape deck. For their debut album, Magnog enlisted Andy Brown of Jessamine to engineer. Magnog was released on compact disc and LP (with eleven minutes extra of music on the vinyl) in March 1996. Magnog played out, recorded a single for the British Enraptured label, and began preparing their second studio album. Live shows were highlighted by extended improvisations and instrument swamping. While Magnog worked on recording their second album, they agreed to let Kranky compile tracks from the three, ninety-minute cassettes that originally got us so excited. The double CD, More Weather, was released in late 1997. David Fricke wrote in Rolling Stone that More Weather is indeed more from the band's bulging demo file, 144 minutes of searing diamond-guitar drama and nimble new math rhythms (soaked in blue-water reverb) going back to 1994 - although it'll feel like 2094 to you.... The Sunday Times of London said on January 18, 1998, that even its most...

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