Majical Cloudz
Wait & See EP (Matador)
“I never show it, but I am always laughing” sings Magical Cloudz frontman Devon Welsh on “Silver Car Crash” — one of the real high points of the Montreal duo’s towering second album, Are You Alone? It was a surprising admission, as Welsh’s lyrics tend to be obsessively, occasionally suffocatingly serious . But on further reflection, there’s a deep-seeded black humor there, a little like a Samuel Beckett novel or a late-stage Goya painting. The chuckles continue on this new collection of material that didn’t quite make last year’s LP. And by “chuckles,” I mean disarming, heartrending ballads, dripping with LOLzy moments like “when I’m dead, I’ll never feel this strange again.” Har dee har har.
