'Magic Hill' - WAKEY WAKEY RISE & SHINE
A Velvet Echoes Release
Cantering across the clouds in a haze of woozy synths, hopeful melodies, and exploratory soundscapes, Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine's latest cut veers off from the irascible garage-punk of their single ‘Backseat Driver’ and wanders into more tranquil, utopian climes. Plumping the relentless grooves of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard with delicate 60s psych-pop harmonies, ‘Magic Hill’ offers a celebration of freedom and natural wonder, its every square inch revelling in a psychedelic euphoria.
Produced at the recording space of beloved Bristol venue The Louisiana with Alfie-Tyson Browne (Langkamer, Katy J Pearson and Saloon Dion), the track zones in on an anonymous free-spirited protagonist wandering in the Welsh countryside, as the band’s lead vocalist/guitarist ‘Smudge’ explains:
“This song is the colours you see in an altered state and about the experience of that particular journey. I wrote this because I watched a video of this Welsh guy probably near to where I’m from. He basically walked his dog up a hill and took some mushrooms from the surrounding field and it looked like he was having a good time. ‘Magic Hill” is now for him.”