I also made a video review on this song, so go check that out if you don't feel like reading!
Hey guys, Lokoreviews here and today I'm going to be reviewing an unknown song. Now when I mean by "Unknown" I'm talking about a song that not many people heard of or even thought that it exist. So today I'm going to be reviewing "Magic" by Olympic Ayres. Now originally, I was making a video review on this song and I was almost done with it. But the video didn't look too good and I didn't give a whole lot of detail about the band. So I decided to make a blog because it would be more easier and I could also give a shit ton of detail about band & the song I'm about to review. Speaking of which, let's start this review!
Now some of you guys maybe wondering on how I found this particular song. Most of you guys maybe thinking I found this song on Pandora or YouTube suggested me to check it out. Even though those 2 situations could have happened, that's not how I found this song. Believe it or not, I actually found this song while I was playing Fifa 14. One day when I was playing that game, I heard this song play and I was really interested after hearing it. After hearing "Magic" for the first time, I decided to give the song more listens to see if I like it or not. So after several listens, I started to like the song more and more. But before I explain why I like this so much, let me give you guys some back story on Olympic Ayres.
Olympic Ayres are an Australian Indie Electronic group consist of 2 guys that are named Kam ( The guy on the left) and Nathan ( The guy on the right). They first met each other at Nathan's high school graduation party in 2010. So Nathan & Kam became really good friends and they decided to start a band together because they both like the same type of music. They started writing songs in 2010 and finally made songs in 2011. Now I don't know what their first song that ever made was because I haven't heard of them in 2011. But in late December of last year, the first song I heard from them was "Magic" and you guys already know the story. Now that you guys got the bright idea about Olympic Ayres and what they're about, let's dive right into their song "Magic".
Where to start? Hmmmm............................................................................................................................. Oh yeah, let's talk about the production of this song! Let me start by saying that I really enjoy the production in this song. The song have a really chill but haunting vibe to it and not to mention that it have a decent melody and a catchy stynth ( also the percussion is not that bad). I don't really have a problem with the production besides the beat being a little bit underwhelming. But other than that, I really enjoy the production in this song.
Now let's talk about the message and what this song is all about! Now at first, I was kind of having trouble on what this song is all about because the lyrics paints a picture of something that happened in the summertime is haunting and following them. So Olympic Ayres decide if they should go over there and fix the problem or just ignore it. The reason why that message is confusing to me because that could be interpreted to anything. With that message, the song could be about personal problems that Olympic Ayres have to deal with in their lives or it could be either about Olympic Ayres missing the feel of Summertime and how they are going to prepare for the winter time ( Or the song could also be about Olympic Ayres facing an un-real supernatural creature that was harming them in the Summer and they had to find a way to stop that beast. What? You never if Olympic Ayres wanted to talk about that). So in my opinion, I interpret the song to be about Olympic Ayres facing problems in their lives and having to deal with it. Now I would happily tell you guys what's happening in their personal lives but they don't really explain their problem in the song. Also I don't really know what is exactly happening in their personal lives right now. But I will say that they did give a good job painting some type of picture to this song ( even they don't go into deeper detail about it). Also I gotta give Olympic Ayres some credit for providing the best hook I heard in a while. Not only that hook is really catchy but it's well constructed in my opinion. Kam provide some good vocals ( even though he stretches some lines in this song to fill up space) and I also love the background vocals that Nathan provides which makes the hook have this chilling & haunting feel to it. Let's not forgot about that awesome & extremely catchy stynth line that they end it off with. That right there just brings magic into the song ( if you know what I mean).
Overall, this song is just fantastic to me and I just love every single second of this song. I love the production, I love the vocals, the message is fine with me, and the song is just a whole lot of fun. Now I'm not saying it is the greatest thing ever because this song does have it's problems. But in my opinion, I really enjoy the song a lot and I just wanted to share the awesome that this song provides so that you guys could check it out and tell everybody about it so that it could become popular and have many success ( and this song definitely deserves to be a hit. I don't care if this song becomes a big major hit when I die, I just want to see this song succeed). That's just my opinion, if you don't like this song for whatever reason or if the song is not for you then that's fine. But overall, I really enjoy this a lot and I hope that this song & Olympic Ayres have a whole lot of success. Speaking Olympic Ayres, I'm going to be checking out more of their stuff because I want to see if they have more awesome music like this. So if you guys need me, I'm going to be listening to more Olympic Ayres and also tune in when give my thoughts on some the songs that charted in the top 40 of January ( and trust me, it will be in video version this time). So this is James Kaloko and everybody in the world just stay loco, peace!
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