New - Magas, James Marlon - Confusion Is My Name - LP

James Marlon Magas has been reborn — or perhaps, more accurately, born for the first time in his most undiluted image. Confusion Is My Name is his first album under his full given name, and the first album in over a decade to position him as a proper frontman at the microphone against the backdrop of his idiosyncratic electronic productions. It arrives as a statement of purpose, a detonation to vaporize the debris and clear out new territory. The album lays out his most diverse menu of styles and experiments to date, veering from technoid noise-pop animated by his maniacal vocal performances, to hallucinogenic psych rock with analog synths repurposed into bludgeoning guitar riffs, to something that resembles lounge music as performed by a delirious crooner on the eve of the world’s destruction. The full composite of Confusion Is My Name in all its twisted glory not only opens a new chapter in his career, but testifies to the undying drive that has motivated James Marlon Magas to create