Magdalena Bay - Image (Official Video)

[@straw9876]

My appointment for my CD lobotomy is almost ready!

[@wingdingdmetrius8025]

xdresser

[@penguinstrain]

The doctor will see you soon!

[@deltacat27]

this is a sentence that im sure has never been said before

[@atrocious9326]

u predicted the album cove romg

[@yuhmuhfuhkuh]

@@atrocious9326buddy’s comment might’ve actually inspired the cover

[@CrackoWitcho]

The audio engineering in this is incredible, so much going on and none of it sounds noisey or cluttered. I love it.

[@mdihero]

genuinely one of the best mixed albums I've ever heard.

[@redtarget5275]

I was lucky enough to experience some of the most popular songs on the album on acid while dogfighting in warthunder. Truly, an experience. The distorted bass toward the end of the song is a fave in a 1v1 turn fight where the only way to survive is to remove the other pilot. 🫡👌

[@klarawodehn22]

@@redtarget5275 the distorted bass!!!!!!!!!! its so well mixed it feels "subtle" in a way on headphones, that i did not really experienced it for the first time, but the second time im like ???? bruh !!!!! THIS LIVE??? this must go so HARD!!!

[@joaomarcelo435]

Magdalena and Bay are so pretty on this video

[@mohanadahmed4482]

Lool😂

[@CarlosLopez-ko8xm]

Oh shes hot allright....

[@UndercoverNormie]

ohhhh mah gaaaaawd

[@artichoke333]

which one’s magdalena

[@UndercoverNormie]

@@artichoke333 The sweet, beautiful maiden known as Mica Tenenbaum. That's Magdalena's nickname.

[@Peace.Beyond.All.Understanding]

That crunchy bass in the last Chorus hits so hard!!

[@sicitachi]

fr it's so good!

[@Rod95ok]

They do be loving the textured bass synths at the end

[@greasymoth4172]

BWOOM BWOOM BWOOM BWA BWOOM BWOOM BWOOM

[@NaviListen]

I wanted so much more cronchy bass!

[@Thatirishbuck]

RIGHTTTT

[@dsn714]

I’m not a big pop music dude, but this chorus is so catchy it should be illegal

[@nettlecider]

A moment of silence for people who may never discover this band.. how are you constantly delivering above 100% ❤

[@andthebanshees]

@PeakApexyou were right!

[@Khrego]

you wrer right​@PeakApex

[@KINH4S]

I am so glad I did I cannot believe I didn’t hear of them sooner 🩵🩵

[@Subbgy]

My new personality for the rest of the summer

[@cursedglingz702]

FRRRR!! So excited for new Magdalena bay music!

[@pattmahiney]

Hollaaaaaa

[@klethx]

You're actually so real for that. This is our new personality

[@jorrdan.]

so true

[@pathogensmusick]

So your guy's new personality is someone else's personality? You don't see how pathetic that is? Get your own life. Lol.

[@eguevara4803]

I hear a lot of millenials like myself talking about how music sucks now then you hear this and get excited about music again. What a great track!

[@ashleyfox5825]

theyre so wrong if they say that

[@farhadchaudhry]

Yeah this is such a great throwback. Really well done.

[@jaydock1]

There’s a lot of great music out now but this sounds like something that would’ve come out when we were younger fs

[@elchicharron9503]

You should hear how GenX describes music of today. 💩💩💩

[@OuraníaWasHere]

When I first discovered Magdalena Bay, I wasn't sure if I was gonna Magdalena stay, but upon letting the Magdalena play, it's safe to declare I'm 100% Magdalena cray. Their melodies and harmonies make my worries all Magdalena sway, in the meadows of their groovy tunes, I'll forever Magdalena lay!

[@thewittyusername]

Sounds like you're having a pretty good Magdalena Day

[@notiashvili]

Your poem just made my Magdalena day!

[@xeigen2]

That was quite the Magdalena essay

[@-cjb-5048]

I’m magdalena gay

[@cody8332]

@@-cjb-5048hahahhaa me too

[@thekambIer]

Listening to this full volume in my headphones isn’t enough. I need it to be Diskinserted into my brain.

[@mark3933]

Now I really wish it was a thing, sounds so cool 😔😂

[@Jinars.]

What headphones do you have?

[@atticuslanderholm1516]

That’s crazy you said diskinserted because that’s the title of an interlude on the album. Time traveler?

[@DryTony]

@@atticuslanderholm1516 lol the tracklist has been out since July

[@hyulle]

Just listen while on mushrooms

[@Jj-bk1jt]

was literally screaming “oh my god” when the distorted bass started at the end it’s so good

[@orbit_gary]

less than a million views. how is this possible? this some of the best synth pop I’ve heard in years.

[@cosmicnoise9543]

my brain yearns to be washed

[@mrerdat]

Taking a wild guess - At 0:45 into the video, a 22 minute timer starts. The album is called "Imaginal Disk", and Imaginal Disc is defined on Wikipedia as "one of the parts of a holometabolous insect larva that will become a portion of the outside of the adult insect during the pupal transformation." According to the track listing this is track number 4 (of 15) so if we take the average pop song length of 3-5 minutes into account the 22 minute countdown will probably end at the start of track 10 "Love Is Everywhere"... The album will go through a "metamorphosis" of some sort which finishes at the end of that countdown, and it will be fucking sick

[@ornitorrique]

wish i could rt this

[@deejaytee]

Probably explains those yucky bubble outfits which straight-up triggered my tryptophobia, dammit.

[@eduardocf1391]

come through Veronica Mars

[@billieeyelash7015]

You need to do the opposite of touch grass.

[@333ferret]

I don’t understand why she says “one more minute” towards the end tho

[@eengamer4190]

I love the new magdalena bay era so much, the visuals are so lovely and weird i really love the vibe of it

[@TommyDay-kq1jj]

Is giving frutiger Aero a little bit and other aesthetics

[@ilyyan36]

2:48 distorted bass fits great there!cool idea!

[@AgentRicePooh]

"Oh my god make me in your image" has me tremblinggg

[@AndreasWallberg]

As a scientist I appreciate that the Wikipedia page concerning the imaginal disk progenitor cells responsible for the development of external features like antennae and legs in holometabolous insects now has redirect to Magdalena Bay's album. It is after all an excellent piece of music to listen in the lab.

[@MarcosLins]

your comment changed my life, thank you!

[@thekambIer]

The lore here is wild

[@harrisdemel]

These guys are an earworm factory to the point of making RFK Jr. proud

[@rus8286]

absolute bars

[@scriptkid_rs]

Mica's outfit is giving empire of the sun. Love it.

[@MattttttMatttttt-zo4tx]

whats her outfit giving empire of the sun?

[@packagedbeans608]

@@MattttttMatttttt-zo4tx loling

[@kittymaid420]

it really is!!!

[@biancaluedeker]

Same thought because of the makeup!

[@nufrankz]

And the cd with the sticky thing around is giving MGMT's vibes

[@Vincente22]

From rewatching the two videos, here's what I can piece together of the story so far: The Imaginal Disk process is one that involves memory wiping (and possibly even false (imagined) memories), with the previous memories kept on one of these disks. Given the "mandatory" notices on the side, it's unknown if Mica's character (presumably named "True") chose to do this process voluntarily or not, but essentially The Doctor wipes her memory, creating a newer, lighter version of her without the burdens of her past, whether it really is "True" or not. In a weird loop, she finds a way to give the disk of her memories back to another version of herself, the blonde character, essentially putting her back "where she was before" and reminding her of the tragedy that has occurred to her (we see a spaceship blowing up, perhaps with her lover that we have previously seen escaping inside; we also see the process being conducted on her). Where we go from here and how the time loop works we have yet to find out, but based on another commenter's mention of "imaginal disc" being a real part of insect larva transformation, and the cryptic culmination of the new website resulting in a cocoon, I think that this process has more strings attached than True originally thought!

[@jpsouza]

I think blonde Mica's character name is "Ghost".

[@3d-pro]

@@jpsouzaIf you check their album website. The house in Death & Romance is in there and it's called True's House. So I think Mica is True and Matt's rainbow guy is Ghost. (There's some snippet of the song in album there as well and it's rocking hard af)

[@purple1441]

@@3d-pro GHOST IS A SONG THEY RELEASED BACK IN 2018 HOLY SHIT THEY PLANNED THIS FROM THE START!!!!! AND THE FACT THAT MERCURIAL WORLD LOOPS FORESHADOWED THE TIME LOOP IN THEIR 2ND ALBUM?!?!?!

[@iwishiwasananteater.3205]

The production on these tracks always blows me away. This is next level type shit.

[@tangibleghooosty]

The group dance they do at 2:49 has been living rent free in my mind for a month

[@brianmacdonald3776]

Its got me actually thinking "oooooo sooo hot" and then it's what she says in the chorus 😂 it's like it's intentional

[@2bin]

Never get tired of Mica's sensual sways and playful prancing while Matt is just chillin in the background.

[@asleepybear]

The Magbay cinematic universe continues to expand ❤️

[@caliclover]

trying to piece together the lore with the website and the mvs right now, feeling so crazed

[@janettplanett]

the website is SO GOOD omg

[@caliclover]

@@janettplanett RIGHTTTTT i can't believe how put together it is... i love the mercurial world website too but imaginal disk's entire story and the execution of it just feels SO cool and cohesive and so magbay

[@davidrucki]

the transition to death and romance on point

[@joebob2311productions]

They always do some sick transitions

[@cirrusyk]

wake up babe, new magdalena bay

[@Cinder36]

Original comment. 👍

[@hoohag5371]

Me to myself

[@2bin]

Should've made it: "wake up bae, new magdalena bay

[@Cinder36]

@@2bin TRUE

[@iliasfunck2742]

new magdalena bae

[@KirkpatrickSounds]

Ok i'm late to the party but so glad I made it. Divine.

[@kaiotellure]

at this point, they are creating their own universe with this psychedelic style.

[@DanielKirbyRecords]

Maybe one day they’ll host or curate a festival 🤞🏻

[@jimmythebold589]

and it really is psychedelic. i'm a veteran psychedelic user who has used acid and shrooms, in massive amounts for forty years. and yeah, i hate the grateful dead, that music is not psychedelic, this is...

[@TheScarletWitchDJ]

They really are cause this MV goes right into death & Romance Music Video

[@SamSung-xz7jt]

Really, really tired pizzagate imagery, actually.

[@bunjijumper5345]

Kate Bush created this universe 50 years ago

[@mccartney7762]

These guys have just about distilled synth pop into its purest form. I can’t believe I’m alive to listen to stuff this good

[@SapeqMr]

One of the Best artists of our generation

[@rommix0]

They might as well be. Even milquetoast performers like Taylor Swift can't even come close to the creativity of these guys. They are yet to be matched.

[@jimmythebold589]

preach! yassss

[@purple1441]

@@rommix0 I really wish people would praise their faves without mentioning Taylor Swift for once. Why is she always on your minds?

[@rommix0]

@@purple1441 Because Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish are the most popular performers right now. There's a reason people talk about them.

[@thunderkitte]

her singing 'OMG' is rly hypnotizing

[@wlfesmith236]

I haven’t seen any comment mentioning it but this mv is giving softcore “i saw the tv glow” & it had to be said Song’s an addictive bop it’d be epic if mag bay & caroline polachek featured together on a song!

[@ruido_sagrado]

Guys, stop taking drugs...................... without me.

[@ruido_sagrado]

and never stop making hits like this!

[@pheonexia]

the way the Image and Death and Romance videos lead into each other is kind of genius bc every time i finish watching one it makes me want to go right into the other.

[@nichoflash]

MGMT, Empire of the Sun and something new, futuristic. It gives me chills everytime.

[@leenbakrikasbah88]

This is giving Peter Gabriel vibes and I'm so here for it! Love it!

[@yanirosales9463]

We don’t care if this is the most popular song on the album!! It’s still one of the best

[@janettplanett]

AGREED

[@ericbevel1495]

Her makeup for this video reminds me of Genesis era Peter Gabriel. So obsessed with this song 🤩

[@sicksabre]

this shit is so absurdly good, all the textures its going on through it I feel like I hear something new every listen

[@andrewalbertson1]

Dude what IS that door slamming sound?! It's crazy I love it. The ending goes so hard with that hard synth bass. Great weird pop

[@Xisupi]

To me it sounds like a slowed & reverb audio clip of a piano crashing into the ground

[@marshallsaltzman9924]

Production is reaaaaaaaally good. And vocals are amazing too

[@gypy416]

This whole song is an absolute bop, but 2:14 onward may define the next generation of synthpop, visually and aurally

[@mattjohnson2025]

that kate-bushy "ohhh my god" is an UNBELIEVABLE earworm ... i may need surgery to one day remove it

[@morningfaroe612]

please i’m so in love with this, it already screams timeless

[@lennypinskiy6598]

Best song on the album.

[@packagedbeans608]

magdalena bay music videos are a gift from the cerebral geocities god

[@Whitelightings]

I didn't think Secrets' MV could be topped. But this Image definitely managed to do it.

[@sanderstar1000]

this is most interesting piece of art i've seen in AGES

[@ep2bigd]

This song is intoxicatingly catchy AF!!!!

[@mingpowman76]

Truly if this came out in 96 it would be number 1 worldwide

[@CHAD-fr4hh]

It's so rare that I listen to new music in this day and age but bands like this give me hope!

[@owlsareround1843]

Loving this new era!! 💓 Can't wait for the album 🥹🥹

[@bvconx]

i can't stop listening to this it's been on loop for 3 hours

[@GrisProw]

X2

[@Lvl77magikarp]

It’s a Magdalena Slay!!

[@willk3283]

Reminds me of the style of an old 80's music video, think Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. Love the artistic direction, very refreshing in a day and age where the artform of the music video feels like an after thought to most mainstream pop hits.

[@Gonx.u]

Empire of the Sun, MGMT, and a dash of Poppy? I love them!!! MORE!!!!

[@muzikkification]

Funny you say EOTS, was thinking Pnau too

[@kieranm7469]

Algorithm pointed me here three days ago! I think this is the most I've frequently replayed a song in years! Good shit!

[@ulisesmaximilianolopez5763]

Argentina Papaaaaaaá!!!!

[@sawenali1856]

huge don’t hug me i’m scared vibes

[@-yume-nikki-]

I thought it reminded of something! I love that show

[@luisbenitez5708]

Ive had this very thought about not just this song. But the whole album. Songs will start with themes as simple as "killing time" or "too much tv is bad" and by the end there's some haunting realization or like demon laughing or something

[@Yazanlorde]

Album of the year

[@lovefoolishh]

you guys are so underrated it’s unfair 😭

[@cheriegrl]

this is so beautiful i can’t even put into words how i feel this is genuinely the best thing i’ve ever seen

[@fresh_hop9447]

Ready to be DiskInserted tomorrow! 💿

[@sambadivilshit]

I love that the energy is still the same , the same magic but still snthg different , it's like seeing the same movie in different colors and styles

[@janettplanett]

BRAT + IMAGINAL DISK SUMMER WHOS WITH MEEEEEEE

[@Millionyroldmonkey]

And Night Tapes 😊

[@icarus313]

Sultry summer dance pop that makes me feel pretty! You folks are such a breath of fresh air and your style already feels timeless.

[@user-om1hi8wd5o]

This feels like watching Mia Goth and Kate Bush being morphed into a synthwave pop star. Magdalena Bay is iconic

[@antoniouchoa7071]

ACUTE AF 😍☝🏽

[@butlayf-dy2sj]

It feels like a reductive diluted version of what various people from Other Generations have already Done

[@butlayf-dy2sj]

Love your Our Generation's Styles You are A L L ripping us off a T A D T O O M U C H ?

[@Emmycron]

@@butlayf-dy2sj nah it's peak

[@elizabethcesar2242]

magdalena bay has never released a bad song

[@WinstonGuitar]

Video reminds me of Peter Gabriel's groundbreaking videos from the So period - circa 1986. Magdalena is also groundbreaking.

[@MrGuypi]

Saw them live this past weekend. One of the best shows you'll ever see!

[@joeylafrond2472]

I was there too. So good!

[@bubububnever]

They are so fucking next level.

[@emmdirt1376]

This music video has got to be Peter Gabriel inspired!! Those parts with the front view of Mica and all the tools are very Sledgehammer-esque. Some of the wacky SFX also really reminds me of Steam.

[@jordan177606]

the weird looking skin colored costumes remind me a little of the slipperman, which if so is a pretty deep cut as far as Peter Gabriel references.

[@uncannylongarms]

i can already imagine how ethereal and beautiful imaginal disk is going to be

[@calen199]

Their unique melodic sensibility and distinct production value truly makes for extremely addictive and fun music. Super excited for the full album!

[@notiashvili]

Oh my god, 3:40 more minutes (of MagBay)!

[@comba06]

Do these guys ever miss? What an amazing Dali surreal music video as well…

[@dreamlarking]

I'm completely enthralled by Magdalena Bay, their sound, and their aesthetic. I hope their star continues to rise high and shine brightly.

[@milouribe4082]

If you search this song by yourself you have a great musical taste 🙂🔥

[@drewjenkins2494]

This is one of the greatest musical performances of all time

[@sergeyshabay6835]

2 out of 2 so far. This might be their best album.

[@davidramos382]

Pure euphoria to my brain and body

[@dylry86]

This song is insanely good

[@ethelythe]

sew my mouth shut idc but I’ll never shut up about how they’ve been my fav band since 2017 and im still getting more insane about them after each new release from them 7 years later

[@Adaptorzzz]

I have a feeling this song is gonna blow up

[@TheGaudeamus515]

The video reminds me of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer! Love the song and the MV too!!!!

[@TylerMcVicker1]

Were parts of this transferred to VHS or SVHS? Because it looks incredible. Perfect for the tape generation loss look, but also high resolution? How did you do that?

[@jared20089]

Holy shit Tyler McVicker (They have this VHS-y look to basically most of their videos, it's basically a staple of theirs at this point. IIRC they usually record their more home-made TikTok stuff with a camcorder, but for this I think they might have used either a filter or they actually transfer this for a VHS look!)

[@opymcgillicutty]

I have not been this into a group in so long. This Magdalena Slays!

[@jlouis4407]

Boy this takes off around 1:38

[@rnb2087]

the visuals along with this being an absolute bop is addicting

[@Karton206]

This track ends too quickly, I imagine 7-8-ish minutes version to get into this crazy swing. Phenomenal song.

[@elmerdaxster]

Going to be listening to this song for a long while, thanks so much guys!

[@polterkhoist]

magdalena bay making themselves my new music obsession again with this one

[@Wanderlust]

This is 🔥

[@stefnik51]

omfg the synth bass at the end, pure ear candy love your new sound

[@corbinstoner8373]

Just found this, now I have a new band to love

[@ProbablyLying]

The chorus is amazing.

[@luisgustavocervantesfiesta6695]

DIVA EXPERIMENTAL