Live Review: Super Magic Hats unveils his lush debut album, 'Separation'

The musical alias of Melbourne/London electronic musician Rob Masterton, SUPER MAGIC HATS is ready to unveil his strongest work to date with his long-awaited debut album, Separation.

Without giving a track by track analysis, the album is one that has a happy overall feel to it. All the tracks have heaps of upbeat chords and synths while featuring some great vocal chops and samples that really make the feel of this album a pleasant one.

The textures of the synths are lush and having this floating feeling to them, and the drums while not prominent are still effective at giving the tracks a great sense of rhythm. Super Magic Hats did a great job with this album, it's rich and diverse with its sound.

Rob aka Super Magic Hats had this to say about the album-

“This LP, is in a way, happy songs about feeling sad - a lot of the inspiration for the tracks was in feelings around anxiety, displacement, longing and uncertainty, and I guess how I could come to terms with those things and tried to accept them rather than ignoring them.  As such, it was at times cathartic and therapeutic to write.  I feel like there's often a lot of pressure to always present as being positive and this is reflected a little in the superficially upbeat nature of tracks that for me were based on less upbeat sentiment”

Separation is out now via Hush Hush Records.

Words by Aiden Benavides

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