Here we are in 2020, exploding like a dream. All keeping busy in new ways and old. Like Magik Markers - as they make new music, they're processing  the mysteries of growing up and being older (memories of the future from your youth) and today's numbed nation, rubbing upon sacred roots and art-noise jamming their way into nonlinear song sense. As it can only be, the music of 2020 (duh, their new album!) is raw and beautiful all at once. So, here we are in the murky and public airing of songs, improvised and planned.

The Markers capture a humid kind of chlorinated heat on 2020, playing like children of divorce at the condominium pool: strangers feeling out games to play, contests to have underwater, blowing by minutes without noticing at all. There is no more contemporary, they say, only emergency. 
 

Left alone in the practice space by late arriving partners, Pete Nolan channeled rage and subconscious Vulcan vibes into a mammoth, almost Sabbathian riff for "That Dream (Shitty Beach)". Vocal duties were tasked to John Shaw, who, after consulting the notes app on Elisa's phone, cherry picked from lyrics and incidental writing to generate the words. The end result is his first take, an unbelievable performance.

Listen to "That Dream (Shitty Beach)" today and preorder 2020 for October 23rd!