“Even while the duo's finding a distinct sound, Mercurial World serves bop after bop.”
“Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin’s fuzzy, rococo synthpop confections have a magic power: They sound like whatever you grew up with, whenever that was.”
“This may be their debut album, but the LA synth-pop duo Magdalena Bay already commandeer their own cinematic universe: Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin are big on TikTok and Twitch; they have alter egos and in-jokes with their avid online fan communities. If this sounds parodically contemporary, it may help their case (or perhaps not) to know that the pair, who met in high school, initially traded”
