The latest album from The Magic Sponge was released at the beginning of the month. The band have featured on these pages several times over the years due to the striking nature of their albums and their unique brand of quirky leftfield guitar pop. The Heart is a Suspect Device is no exception to this, once again the band coming up with the goods, and sharing an album packed full of instant earworms, and of course captivating the listener with their usual intriguing selection of song subjects and lyrical couplets, I’m pretty sure The Magic Sponge must be the only band to have written about theologian, geologist and palaeontologist William Buckfield.… Read the rest
