Name: Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet
Brand: Piano Magic

Tax rate EU

Default:19

Supplier EU

Bertus Musikvertrieb

Total Cap

Format detail

Colour details

Discogs ID

Limited edition

Colour

Format Music EU

Extended format

Extended format: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Download code

Download code: No

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Release date

2012-06-21

Format multiplier

Catalogue number

SLGCD17

UPC / Barcode

885767457959

Artist

Piano Magic

Label EU

Second Language

Genre EU

Piano Magic is an influential music project that was formed in 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dick Rance, and Dominic Chennell. Initially inspired by studio-bound projects like This Mortal Coil, the group started as a loose collective with ever-changing line-ups. In its early years, Piano Magic's home recordings featured contributions from friends and acquaintances. However, by 1999, they had transformed into a fully-fledged international touring group.

Throughout their career, Piano Magic's sound evolved from lo-fi electronic experimentation to post-rock and electropop before settling into lush melancholy chamber pop. With numerous albums and singles under their belt, they gained recognition for their unique musical style.

In January 2017, Piano Magic announced that 'Closure' would be their final album. They bid farewell to their fans with a memorable last UK concert on December 3rd, 2016 at The Lexington in London – exactly 20 years after their first-ever performance.

Newest Listed Items

the 11th official album by anglo-french popular underground oxymoron, piano magic, 'life has not finished with me yet', sees the group emerging from beneath the wreckage of previous guitar-heavy albums to re-investigate the darker, more electronic sonic themes of their earlier work. instant parallels will inevitably be drawn with the ghostly chamber pop of 1999's 'artists rifles' and the even earlier surreal romanticism of 'low birth weight'. at the core, once again, glen johnson's unashamedly nihilistic ruminations on the human condition, though now shrouded in foggy analog synth washes, pulsing heart beats, cathedral reverbs and joe meek-esque spectral vox. this is an album of beautiful, indispensible baroque ghostliness, of disconnected hearts and oceans. touchstones would be the new, airless beauty of regis and raim, the timeless gravitas of dead can dance and the urban, though melodic, isolationist output of late 70's/early 80's factory records. since 1996, piano magic have established themselves as something of an oxymoron: a popular underground band. previously hailed as a secret love amongst european darkwave enthusiasts, recent concerts in their home city of london have revealed a confident foray into quieter, more fragile, melodic material, eschewing the dynamic, cathartic guitar barrages of recent albums, 'part monster' and 'ovations'.

Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet

Music EU