"Magic Wands are about as perfect as bedroom pop can get" – Music Week
"Perfect dreamy pop" - CMU
Magic Wands are hotly tipped Nashville based girl/guy duo Chris and Dexy Valentine, one of the most exciting groups to come out of America for a long time.
Opening with the kind of fuzzed up guitar riff that wouldn't sound out of place on either Blondie's Parallel Lines, or Michael Jackson's Thriller, the band's first limited single 'Black Magic' is a swirling mix of sleazy, otherworldly psych-pop.
Lyrically and stylistically, Magic Wands have created their own weird and wonderful world. In their Ray-Band Wayfarers, cut off t-shirts and with only their guitars and a 5ft stuffed lion for company, Chris and Dexy are certainly doing their own thing.
The story of how Magic Wands came to be reads like an alternative version of Tarantino's True Romance, or the beginning of a Brett Easton Ellis novel.
In 2007 while living in Nashville, Chris found a song on Myspace that he listened to repeatedly, day and night. Soon he discovered it was a song by Dexy, called 'Teenage Love'. During the course of the summer 2007 Chris and Dexy started talking on the phone until dawn, writing songs for each other and mailing gifts such as toy lions, old records, handwritten poems and one glowing heart lamp. Though 2000 miles apart, they decided they were destined to be. Two weeks later Chris was back in L.A. helping Dexy pack up her old Mercedes Benz for a trip across the country.
When they arrived in Nashville they began recording under the name Magic Wands, taken from one of Dexy's favorite things that Chris sent her - a magic wand.
Magic Wands announced their arrival with the release of the brilliant 'Teenage Love' as a free download on Valentine's Day from their Myspace. 'Teenage Love' is now widely available from iTunes and all other digital platforms.
By the time you read this, Magic Wands will have made their live debut at this year's SXSW. One of the main tips of the pre-festival chatter, a rammed Maggie Mae's rooftop and a blistering live performance showed everyone why Magic Wands are one of the most anticipated groups of 2008.
Band: Chris and Dexy Valentine
