Magik Markers – Balf Quarry
[Drag City, 2009]
genre: noise rock, experimental rock
Album review by goresonic

‘Balf quarry’ is Magik Markers’ escape from Thurston’s Ecstatic Peace label and their first album for Drag city label. From the first years of their existance, Sonic Youth’s inspiration was obvious in their sound, something that it’s 100% normal for every New York city based noise rock band.
In the year 2007, after a lot of cd-rs and other releases, they created “Boss” their first album with their original sound. The album was a thrash-punk noisy bomb and it was voted as one of the best albums of that year.
This year’s “Balf Quarry” come to continue that progress. In some music magazines and sites was written that this work is a copy of “Boss” and maybe some of you will believe that too. Although, I would say that even if this were true the album is more than acceptable. The first two songs are proving that, “Risperdal“ with the noisy-pop start and Elisa Ambrogio’s really intensive voice and “Don’t talk in your sleep” with the paranoid guitars. Then the psycho-thrash punk no-wave “Jerks” and that proves how an album becomes interesting. Their noisy sound experience continues in the rest of the album with a slow exception of “State numbers”, and ends with a drone guitar end accompanied by wandering Ambrogio’s vocals.
“Balf Quarry” is for me an album that shows Magik Markers paranoiac sentiments and gives the opportunity to discover the band deeply.

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the album: magik markers balf 2009 rapidshare
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links
http://www.themagikmarkers.com/
http://www.myspace.com/theemagikmarkers

tracks
1 Risperdal
2 Don’t Talk in Your Sleep
3 Jerks
4 Psychosomatic
5 7/23
6 State Numbers
7 Ricercar of Dr. Clara Haber
8 Lighter Side of….Hippies
9 Ohio R./Live/Hoosier
10 Shells

Goresonic