Magic Castles' bright vocal harmonies, hazy guitars, and warm organ drones propel their fantasyland storytelling into a warm, pastoral neo-psychedelic journey. Their early self-released albums caught the ear of like-minded voyager Anton Newcombe, and he signed the group to his A Recordings. The music they made under the label's auspices was a heady trip through the past guided by the clarity of modern recording techniques as shown on albums like 2014's Sky Sounds and 2021's Sun Reign.
The band formed in Minneapolis in 2006, growing out of singer/guitarist Jason Edmonds' home-...