Feeling Figures Migration Magic

For years Feeling Figures have tinkered away at the edge of the Montreal scene,never fitting neatly into the ebb and flow of the city's cultural trends or its moretraditionalist camps. A geographer, a music therapist, a writer, and an underground artsbiz maverick, the four Figures have long been friends and collaborators in various musicalformations and continue to propel multiple projects.At the core of Feeling Figures is the Zakary Slax and Kay Moon songwriting partnership,which itself stretches back a decade, the pair first crossing paths in a vibrant periodof musical upheaval in Sackville, NB - a college town on Canada's East Coast. In the big city,a series of self-releases, shifting monikers, and revolving live lineups eventually coalescedwith Thomas Molander & Joe Chamandy as the ultimate rhythmic vehicle and spiritualconsorts for Slax & Moon's unconstrained syntheses of multiple eras of indie rock,punk, psychedelia, folk, and outsider pop. Their debut 7" of 2021 was an early entryin Montreal upstart label Celluloid Lunch's catalog.`Migration Magic' was recorded in a flurry of live noise across two nights in December 2022.The Figs (as they are affectionately known to each other) had already recorded a fullalbum's worth of material earlier in the year, but as the winter holidays grew near anda brief stint as openers for the nationally celebrated Ancient Shapes concluded,they knew they had something more to capture. Thomas brought his recording gearto the Studio Migration practice space and the quartet threw all their remaining materialinto the air. Some songs were drawn deep from the back-catalogs of Moon & Slax,others were new compositions, and 2 spontaneous covers were chosen to round out the set.The immediacy of these recordings, with their interplay of sweet melodyand raw instrumentation, forged a new destiny for the group, ultimately arriving asthe first Feeling Figures LP.