Magic Castles – Realized

Description

Magic Castles are back with new album Realized, a set of lush psych-rock reveries from Minneapolissongwriter Jason Edmonds, blending late-60s folk-rock warmth with shoegaze shimmer. Newly signed to FuzzClub, Realized takes Magic Castles music to a newfound level of clarity, whilst still retaining that same, long-harboured analogue warmth only made possible through an array of vintage amps, guitars and transistor
organs. Released April 24th 2026, Realized consists of nine dreamlike, melody-led trips that unfold in waves.

Equal parts hazy nostalgia and widescreen modern psychedelia, centring dreamy, heavily-layeredarrangements and floating vocal harmonies. Magic Castles was formed in Minneapolis MN in the early 2000sby multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jason Edmonds. Their debut album Lore of Mysticore caught the earof Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, culminating in four albums released on Newcombes
label A Recordings Ltd over 2012-22 including, most recently, 2021s Sun Reign (a song from which wouldfeature on an episode of the hit HBO series Succession). After a headline tour of Europe in 2023, Jasonreturned to Minneapolis and steadily finished piecing together Realized the bands fifth-full length, nowready to see the light of the day on their new label home Fuzz Club. Edmonds and the rest of the current Magic
Castles line-up (consisting of Adam Patterson on drums, Izaak Drew on guitar and Kristof Marden on bass)recorded the tracks with Nick Tveitbakk at the legendary Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota, with additionalrecording by Edmonds at his studio the Map Room and in Neil Weirs remote chapel-converted-to-studio, BlueBell Knoll, where Edmonds and Weir would loving co-mix the end result.

Tracklist

1. Hey Alright
2. Abandoned Mansions
3. Samata
4. Mary Anne
5. Space Manual
6. Got Me Waiting
7. Summertime Fingertips
8. Don’t Go
9. Realized