{"id":18448,"date":"2026-02-13T07:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18448"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:13:43","slug":"magic-wands-wishing-well-us-dream-pop-duo-release-title-song-of-upcoming-ep-as-a-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18448","title":{"rendered":"MAGIC WANDS : ‘Wishing Well’ – US dream-pop duo release title song of upcoming EP as a new single"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US dream-pop duo Magic Wands<\/strong> have released a brand new single, ‘Wishing Well\u2019, today. With an insistent rhythm and swirling guitars, plus a vocal that adds to its hazy atmosphere, the song sounds like an immediate post-punk meets shoegaze classic.

\u201cThe lyric came to me when I was a guest of a guest at a wedding one summer,\u201d <\/em>explains vocalist Dexy Valentine. \u201cThere was an obvious sense of excitement at the event, but I didn\u2019t really know anyone there so I snuck off outside and sat by a wishing well fountain and started writing on a napkin. When we came up with the music for this song I thought these words would fit perfectly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-written and produced by Dexy with her partner Chris Valentine, \u2018Wishing Well\u2019 is the title song of an EP scheduled for late April. It follows the January release of \u2018Sacred Mirrors\u2019, a collaborative single with Psychedelic Furs guitarist John Ashton STREAM<\/a> | BANDCAMP<\/a>, which itself had come after the autumn 2025 release of \u2018Cascades\u2019, the sixth Magic Wands album STREAM<\/a> | BANDCAMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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