Young Magic have announced a tour this summer with Bear In Heaven, a month-long string of dates taking them all over North America. In celebration of the tour, the duo has released a new remix for “Holographic” by Liverpool beatmaker SertOne, morphing the track into a world of sparkling textures and sub-shaking beats. The original track also recently got the video treatment by Johann Rashid and directors Young Magic themselves, who explore a crumbling resort in the Catskills and offer a stunning visual portrait of Manhattan.

Young Magic explain:

“We shot ‘Holographic’ with Johann Rashid at an abandoned castle and a crumbling resort where Sinatra had once spent his summer holidays – spaces of former glory now slowly decomposing. A cyclical pattern, like everything. The skeletal buildings had been stripped and tagged, leaving only the shape-shifting ghosts of stories these walls once housed. The past and present at once. We shot in Manhattan, a locale destined for the same fate – consistent only in it’s eccentric beauty and impermanence. The Portuguese have a word for this feeling that isn’t translatable in English: a mix of happy and sad, a type of longing toward something once loved. They call it saudade.”

Comprised of Melati Malay and Isaac Emmanuel, Young Magic released their sophomore record, Breathing Statues, this May via Carpark Records, and have been busy playing shows with Autre Ne Veut, Fuck Buttons and more, in addition to getting their tracks remixed by Teebs and Mark McGuire. Reigning in the melodic chaos of their previous works, the dystopian beats on Young Magic’s second release Breathing Statues were conceived in a new series of experiments. The two pieced together the album over the past year while on tour, recording in Morocco, France, Czech Republic, Australia, Iceland and their home studio in New York. As a result, Breathing Statues unfolds in labyrinthine fashion, its surreal lyrics and ghostly harmonies emphasizing the record’s otherworldly intimacy, growing darker as the album progresses from the agile “Fall In” to the lurching chants of “Mythnomer.” With Breathing Statues, Young Magic’s series of audio experimentations coalesce into a new holographic landscape.

Young Magic 2014 Tour Dates
Jul 24 – Emmaboda Festival – Emmaboda, SE
Jul 27 – Festival Milhoes de Festa – Barcelos, PT
Jul 31 – La Plage at Glazart – Paris, FR
Aug 1 – Visions Festival at The Laundry – London, UK
Aug 2 – De Nieuwe Anita – Amsterdam, NL
Aug 4 – Sommerloft at Badeschiff – Berlin, DE
Aug 15 – Lowlands Festival – Leylstad, NL

Aug 20 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA *
Aug 21 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA *
Aug 22 – Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, DC *
Aug 23 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC *
Aug 24 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA *
Aug 26 – Spanish Moon – Baton Rouge, LA *
Aug 27 – House of Blues – Houston, TX *
Aug 28 – The Parish – Austin, TX *
Sept 2 – The Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA *
Sept 3 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA *
Sept 5 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR *
Sept 6 – Bartfest – Spokane, WA *
Sept 7 – Chop Suey – Seattle, WA *
Sept 10 – 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN *
Sept 11 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL *
Sept 13 – Horseshoe Tavern – Toronto, ON *
Sept 14 – La Sala Rossa – Montreal, QC *
Sept 16 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY *
Sept 17 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY *

* with Bear In Heaven

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