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Soft New Magic Dream
2025 studio album by Black Moth Super Rainbow From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Soft New Magic Dream is the eighth studio album by American psychedelic electronic indie rock project Black Moth Super Rainbow. It was released on June 6, 2025, via Rad Cult in LP, CD and digital formats.
The album, released seven years after the band's 2018 full-length release, Panic Blooms,[1] consists of ten songs with a total runtime of approximately forty minutes. "Open the Fucking Fantasy" was released as a single on March 7, 2025.[2] It was preceded by "All 2 of Us", a single released in 2024.[3]
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Spectrum Culture's Holly Hazelwood described Soft New Magic Dream as "an album that felt purposefully sedate at times," commenting that it "is not a switchblades-in-pockets kind of album. In most ways, it picks up almost exactly where they left off with 2018's Panic Blooms."[7]
The album received a rating of 6.6 from Pitchfork, whose reviewer Samuel Hyland remarked, "While Soft New Magic Dream largely re-hashes the Black Moth Super Rainbow formula, it also occasionally manages to find new colors in old constraints—not abandoning their schtick, but not copy-pasting it either."[6] In a four-star review for AllMusic, Tim Sendra observed that "Instead of murk and grime, the songs are almost pretty. The synths have a glistening sheen to them, the vocals are almost lilting, and the melodies throughout are soft and dreamy for the most part."[4]
Robin Webb of Narc assigned the album a rating of three, referring to it as "an oozing, synthy new album with hip-hop rhythms by blurry, neon pop dream band."[5] Writing for Mxdwn, Elliot Wilson noted, "In ten tracks, BMSR manages to deliver an experience that's best analogized as being like a slow dance in an underground lake – as surreal and artificial as it is bouncing and romantic."[8]
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