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Magic Bullets
Since we last saw magic bullets at noise pop 2007, the San Francisco band have released their first full length "a CHILD but in life yet a DOCTOR in love" (Words on Music) a record further expounding upon the wistful and easy going pop of previous albums. With music deserving of Britpop and 80's new wave comparisons, the quintet's vocalist Phillip Benson serves to further justify such parallels with his distinct likeness to Morrissey's familiar croon. Eliciting a minimalist sound often surprising for a six piece, Magic Bullets carry their songs with a precise and punctuated rhythm section, fully intent on making you move. ANNE OSTROWSKI - Noise Pop 2008 Program Guide
The members of this San Francisco sextet spent their youth playing together in various punk rock bands. Having since progressed to the '80s post-punk influences of Orange Juice, the Sound, and the Feelies, the old friends construct songs with yearning-but-hopeful-vocals buoyed by melodic guitar, pulsating Wurlitzer piano, and deft start/stop drumming. Loaded with toe-tapping treasures tempered by melancholic mood swings, their 2007 debut a CHILD but in life yet a DOCTOR in Love is the product of a young band with an old soul. -APRIL KILCREASE
...The local six-piece, which presumably borrowed its name from the same German folktale that inspired "The Black Rider," draws from the emotional candor and jerky rhythms of the '80s post-punk era to carve a wistful but upbeat niche for itself in San Francisco's indie-pop scene. -SF GATE
