Release date: 29-10-2007

2007 stickly limited 9-Track vinyl LP edition  Magik Marker's second full length on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label contains a mind- melting stew of experimental noise and sexy blues swagger that demands repeated listens. In colour sleeve, they are each hand-screened individual works of art & very very limited.

Tracks:
   01. Axis Mundi   
   02. Body Rot   
   03. Last Of The Lemach Line   
   04. Empty Bottles   
   05. Taste  
   06. Four/The Ballad of Harry Angstrom    
   07. Pat Garrett  
   08. Bad Dream/Hartford's Beat Suite   
   09. Circle

Having already helped Wooden Wand achieve his most fully realised statement to date on the splendid James & The Quiet,Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! imprint once again allows more heroes of the American underground to flourish under the spotlight of a proper production job.

Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously-unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, 'I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound.' BOSS stands as the Markers' first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full-blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel's horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around