In July 2016, Alex Toth was recovering from a broken foot and a broken heart, stuck in his fourth-floor apartment in Brooklyn with cast and crutches. This is where Toth's achingly beautiful debut album, Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help When Necessary, was born. A few months earlier, Alex and his Rubblebucket cofounder and love of more than eleven years had consciously uncoupled, after a period of helping each other through devastating challenges. Alex was lightning-struck by sadness. That spring, a new kind of music started to come raw, stripped-down songs unfurling without agenda, bent over an acoustic guitar. Practice Magic is a self-help guide unlike any other a breakup album before wholeness, but after anger. The album turns as it goes, through lush, windswept sonics, bebop trumpet solos, and spare guitar, recalling the Beach Boys in one bar and Arthur Russell in the next. Its an album for remembering and letting goand discovering what magic remains.
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- Genre: Rock, Pop
- Format: Vinyl
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Track Listing:
A1 Down For The Count
A2 Song To Make You Fall In Love With Me
A3 No Reason
A4 Copilot
A5 Picture Of You
A6 Funny Business
B1 When I Awoke
B2 Guts To Fly
B3 Sentientiment
B4 Blessing Song
B5 Decay