| Seek Magic | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Memory Tapes |
| Cover: | Memory Tapes - Seek Magic.jpg |
| Released: | August 24, 2009 |
| Length: | 40:20 |
| Label: | Something in Construction |
| Next Title: | Player Piano |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
Seek Magic is the debut studio album by American musician Dayve Hawke under the alias Memory Tapes. It was released on August 24, 2009[1] by the label Something in Construction.
The cover art features an image of the painting Mirage by Tomory Dodge.[2]
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Seek Magic received an average score of 86, based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The album has an 8.0 rating on review aggregator website AnyDecentMusic? and is certified an "ADM Chart Topper".
Seek Magic was awarded the title of "Best New Music" by Pitchfork, with critic Ian Cohen praising the album as "achingly gorgeous dance-pop that captures both the joy of nostalgia and the melancholic sense that we're grasping for good times increasingly out of reach". In a 2019 retrospective piece on chillwave for Stereogum, Cohen cited Seek Magic as "probably the best" chillwave album released in 2009, "and, by definition, probably the greatest chillwave album of all time".[3]
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