Memphis’s dreamiest, chisel-jawed, heaven haired, summer holiday heroic, sweet hearted sons and daughters Magic Kids have already laid claim to the better parts of our imagination this year with the impossibly charming throwback blue-eyed pop-a-billy hearthrobber that is “Hey Boy” in all its brassy prom pomp and week kneed classroom crooning. The song’s other half dropped into our inbox today – entitled “Good To Be”, it’s a love-rushing orchestral roll in the grass that comes on like an airkissing young Roy Orbison ballooning head over heels high and hopelessly lost within the swirling fantasyland composition of Scott III) , that taps into exactly the same timelessness and honesty that makes the A-side undeniable and makes the prospect of a physical release, set to step out soon on hometown homeboys Goner, a delicious prospect.

Magic Kids – Good To Be

Photo by Ealing’s dreamiest, chisel-jawed, snap happy Nick Pomeroy