Golden Silvers
Magic Hotel / Another Universe

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OVERVIEW: After the overwhelming success of ltd edition debut single ‘Arrows of Eros’, North London three piece Golden Silvers return with brand new double a-side single ‘Magic Touch’ / ‘Another Universe’, released on the band’s own label Bronze Records.
What a summer it’s been for Golden Silvers. Having being picked to headline the Introducing Stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend, the band went on to win the Glastonbury unsigned competition and proceeded to give a stand out performance on the Other Stage. ‘Arrows of Eros’ was released and a summer anthem was born, with radio plays across Radio 1 - Jo Whiley played it 3 times and Huw Stephens declared the band his tip for the year.
‘Magic Touch’ - produced by Lexxx (Black Kids, Teenagers) - is a giddy, rush of pop recalling Orange Juice at their most melodic. Rhodes and piano build around lead singer Gwillym Gold’s tale of doomed carnal romance “now the bells don’t ring so much / For I’ve lost my magic touch” as bass player Ben Moorhouse and drummer Alexis Nunez add ecstatic, Rubber Soul three-part harmonies on the chorus.
‘Another Universe’ opens the lid on the bands’ love of Prince, Sly and Family Stone and Outkast with it’s huge, syncopated opening groove, before making way to a piano led anthem that with it’s lucid imagery and epic chorus sounds like a spiritual heir to Bowie’s ‘Oh, You Pretty Things’.