Magic City Hippies Share Water Your Garden LP

Miami indie pop group Magic City Hippies have finally shared their brand new LP Water Your Garden, along with its focus track, “Atlantis.”

Speaking on the final single, Robby Hunter wrote:

“Painted with the backdrop of crashing waves and denim on Laguna Beach – we wonder if this new love we’ve found is already lost in the ocean, or was it much deeper than that. Fresh love always seems to be the most raw, rewarding, fleeting kind of love. In its truest form it’s a tiny spark, or a massive comet shooting by in one fleeting instance of your lifetime. It’s something you desperately want to hold on to forever, but can’t quite seem to keep out of the clutches of time. This playful, seemingly innocent track bends and twists into a classic MCH transition, morphing into an entirely different but related song. Transporting the listener into our trap-infused DM’s, seemingly where this fresh love began in the first place…”

Speaking on the record, Robby continued:

“Does life write music? Or does music write life.

It’s something we ask ourselves every time we finish an album. There is some type of serendipity in finishing music that somehow plays out in real life. Almost like predicting the future. The same thing happened with ‘Modern Animal,’ and it seems to be playing out again with this new piece of work. I think that means we’re doing something right, if our music somehow knows something more about us than we do.

Water Your Garden is the first album we created while all three of us were in separate places around the US. Completely remote and sending songs back and forth throughout quarantine- while everyone was locked down in their respective homes. Pat finally moved out to LA- locked down in his studio. Robby moved out into the mountains of Montana, and John held down the homebase in Miami.

Since coming off our most successful tour to date, the 2020 Modern Animal tour, everyone was riding high. We had huge shows booked in our future and felt like our dreams were finally within reach- then covid hit. And everyone experienced their own version of some type of mental health issue (just like everyone else in the world). Whether it was a massive stress-test on relationships in lockdown, or family members passing away, or politics driving best friends away. Everyone seemed like they were going through something.

I think haphazardly we all realized how important self-care was, and how necessary it was to help us get through this thing. Without knowing, we began to write about our life experiences- and the songs started flowing. With the life transitions everyone in the band was going through, we were all starting to water our own gardens, and take care of ourselves, and our families for the first time. So the album just feels so fitting, even if we didn’t know where we’d all be in our lives last summer when we named it.

I think that lended itself to a more introspective, emotionally mature collection of music. At least lyrically – musically it’s classic MCH, all over the place sounds. From some heavy synth-based, Jai Paul inspired bops – to Drake inspired trap – to soft, vintage tinted instrumental tracks like ‘Hangunder’ and throwback 80’s hits like ‘High Above The Sun.’ Even if the majority of the songs aren’t classically ‘happy’ we are still urging the listener to dance to every track, and that is a must in magic city hippie music.

We were fortunate enough to get a bunch of our friends on tracks – from maye’s perfect voice on ‘Water Your Garden,’ to Tim Atlas on ‘Therapy,’ and Nafets on ‘High Beams’ … it all seemed to come together perfectly.”

Magic City Hippies are on tour now, continuing through Spring 2022. Tickets are on sale now.

MAGIC CITY HIPPIES LIVE

Jan 13: Jacksonville, FL – 1904 Music Hall ^
Jan 14: Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse ^
Jan 15: Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle ^
Jan 16: Washington, DC – Union Stage ^
Jan 18: Fairfield, CT – Warehouse ^
Jan 20: Boston, MA – Big Night Live ^
Jan 21: New York, NY – Irving Plaza ^
Jan 22: Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry ^
Jan 23: Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Music Hall ^
Jan 25: Cleveland, OH – House of Blues ^
Jan 27: Indianapolis, IN – The Hifi ^
Jan 28: Chicago, IL – Park West ^
Jan 29: Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom ^
Jan 30: Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater ^
Feb 1: St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall ^
Feb 2: Kansas City, MO – Madrid Theatre ^
Feb 4: Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre ^
Feb 5: Steamboat Springs, CO – Strings Music Pavilion
Feb 6: Salt Lake City, UT – The Commonwealth Room ^
Feb 8: Bozeman, MT – The ELM ^
Feb 9: Missoula, MT – The Wilma ^
Feb 11: Seattle, WA – The Showbox @ The Market ^
Feb 12: Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom ^
Feb 14: Eugene, OR – Sessions Music Hall #
Feb 15: Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s #
Feb 17: Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst Atrium #
Feb 18: San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore #
Feb 19: Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco #
Feb 20: San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park #
Feb 22: Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom #
Feb 23: Albuquerque, NM – Launch Pad #
Feb 25: Dallas, TX – Trees #
Feb 26: Austin, TX – Emo’s #
Feb 27: Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall #
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