Magana - “Shower Song”

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From the brand new EP, Bad News, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Magana has just revealed “Shower Song.”

By way of the artist’s signature “cozy-core,” “Shower Song“ fades in on a multi-layered stream of ethereal vocals before making way for a finger-plucked duet of acoustic and electric guitars. The result is a sound that will grab the attention of all music lovers, leading them along a gentle journey of reflection and introspection.

Magana soon reveals her delicate vocal performance and it is absolutely no surprise at all that she’s been enlisted by the likes of Mitski, Lady Lamb, and Laura Cortese. As she delivers lyrical content that spans both regret and emotional fatigue, her delivery is supported by ghostly textures of auxiliary vocals and a myriad of synthy tones.

Elements drop in and out of the arrangement, bringing a fabulous sense of ebb and flow to “Shower Song,” most notable in the pre-chorus and on the refrain. Electronically-driven percussive sounds arrive to support the multitude of strings and keys, with the deeper end of the spectrum filled with rich notes from the bass.

In just over four minutes, Magana sets music to the end of a relationship– those extended showers we often take in an attempt to wash away our unwanted thoughts, or to further extinguish the feelings that are no longer relevant to the situation at hand. We’ve been fans of Magana ever since she sent us “To My Love,” and we know that once you hear “Shower Song,” you’ll happily join us.

About her new EP, Magana adds that it is “the last of what I think of as an interconnected trio of releases. Teeth was made for spring, a period of growth. It was expansive and exploring. Dreams was made for fall. It was about dusk, the dawning of the restful months. Bad News is made for that period of time between the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Stillness before movement. Each song is about the period of time right before a transition: the realization that change is coming or that it needs to come. As the most lyrically driven of the releases, it is mostly about storytelling. I think of each track as a vignette of a moment in time for four different stories.”

Magana’s music is available everywhere via Audio Antihero. Connect with her online: Instagram | Spotify | Facebook | Bandcamp

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