Listening to abracadabra’s peel away EP is a little bit like scrolling through Instagram reels, minus the crushing ennui. The beats are fidgety and liable to change. There’s a sense of something whizzing and spooling. A new vocal style might emerge, or a bonkers effect could be layered over something else for a few seconds. Sometimes, in that time-honored 1960s tradition, abracadabra might just use a weird sound — a train whistle, a dub siren — only for it never to crop up in the song again. And why not? Abracadabra build songs like Kevin McCallister builds booby traps: intricate feats of imagination rigged with surprises.
Abracadabra are Hannah Skelton (vocals, synthesizers) and Chris Niles (bass, synthesizers). Although they’ve been active…

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