Computer Magic - The End Of Time

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Computer Magic is Danielle Johnson, a sci-fi obsessed 21 year old who traded in the leafy environs of her native Rock Hill in upstate New York for the bright lights NYC.

Danielle has been active as a photographer, DJ, writer and blogger in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn-centric art scenes for some time but it is the music that she has been making since early 2010 as Computer Magic that has propelled her singular talent in to focus.

Danielle fills Computer Magic’s wistful laptop-pop world with aching emotion and a baleful innocence and naivety that cannot help but sincerely engage the listener.

However, her innate knack for a beautiful hook and languorous melody will leave her three minute Korg mini-masterpieces engrained deep in your aural subconscious while her ethereal vocals loop endlessly on repeat around your cranium.

While the NME named Computer Magic one of the “ten biggest buzzes at SXSW 2011” Pitchfork, Stereogum and Altered Zones have also been frothing with praise for the slew of MP3’s that Danielle has made freely available via her Tumblr over the last sixth months.

Despite the easy availability of Computer Magic material online “The End Of Time” b/w “In So Many Ways” represents the first manifestation of Computer Magic in physical form in the UK following a swiftly sold out 12” EP on US tastemaking indie White Iris in March.

The 7”s A-side “The End Of Time” is perhaps the breeziest song ever written about apocalypse and the imminenet destruction of the human race. A nonchalantly understated vocal begging to be able to “live just a little longer” wafts over burbling sequenced synths and clipped snares redolent of pioneering Teutonic explorers of electronica, Kraftwerk.

Meanwhile “In So Many Ways” offers a glacially stripped arrangement and a shuffling beat reminiscent of early New York New Wave from Talking Heads to Television replete with a doleful vocal delivered with all the nonchalance of a young Debbie Harry all swaddled in fragile chords and insistent keyboard figures.

Eyes should also be kept peeled for remixes of “The End Of Time” by hotly tipped London newcomer The Deptford Goth, elusive Mancunians Christian AIDS and San-Franscican acid-freestyle prodigy Adeptus.

Live and on record Danielle is joined by James Morley on guitar, Justin Coles on bass and Chris Egan (Adam Green, Lightspeed Champion) on drums.

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