Magic Trick

Other Man's Blues

Empty Cellar

Empty Cellar is proud to release the newest album by Magic Trick, Other Man’s Blues—written and recorded while songwriter Tim Cohen split his time between two lives and two worlds, a horse ranch with his newborn daughter, and on tour or at Phil Manley’s Lucky Cat Studios in San Francisco. A book of songs Cohen had written while bouncing to and fro sufficed in lieu of rehearsal time with the thirteen other musicians who appear on the tracks: James Kim and James Barone (Beach House) on drums; Alicia Van Heuvel (Aislers Set) and Paul Garcia on bass; Joel Robinow (Once and Future Band / Danny James) on keys; Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang / The Muggers) on guitar; and omnipresent vocal harmonies from Alicia, Noelle Cahill and Anna Hillburg.?! The album is a loose, largely improvised affair, with many guest appearances and stop-ins.?! Allegedly tequila was centrally involved.?! It’s the principle that gave this project a name five years ago.?!

Magic Trick

Half Man Half Machine

Spiritual Pajamas

“Sound structure or randomness will fill the mind with a certain primal need for an evolution that inherently limits the imagination.?! Half Man Half Machine, the latest Magic Trick release, builds and then explores a sonic landscape that is constantly in bloom.?! Whether it be in the slipstream and eddying of triumphant washes of melody, in the serpentining elegance of percussive brambles, or in the perseverance of the laconic lilt, woven upon revelations of transcendence and frailty from the mouth of Tim Cohen, one is invited into a landscape that shifts and grows based on its own ulterior nature...and one must only listen to find it for themselves.?!

Magic Trick

River Of Souls

Empty Cellar

***River of Souls is the third enchantment from the hat of TIM COHEN (THE FRESH AND ONLYS) and his band, MAGIC TRICK.?! Picking up from where he left us with Ruler of the Night (Hardly Art), Cohen brings us ten new intimate tracks, polished as yet unseen.?! Recorded in The Tree House, his attic studio, River of Souls whirls with parables of change amidst emotional flotsam and jetsam.?! Insecurities, sarcasm, escapism, optimism, vanity, honesty, and bona fide love… it is all there, but in comforting form.?! Tim’s well-skewed pop songs remind us that things can always be better, but also that what we have is pretty amazing.?! River of Souls signals a new approach for Magic Trick.?! As in The Fresh and Onlys, Tim has begun to distinguish his muses from those of the foggy San Francisco lo-fi movement that he helped to shape.?! Mixed at Lucky Cat Studios with PHIL MANLEY and mastered by PAUL OLDHAM, this album exudes presence and confidence.?!

Magic Trick

Glad Birth Of Love

Empty Cellar

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Empty Cellar records is proud to announce the latest full-length album by TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS), The Glad Birth of Love.?! This is Tim Cohen's fourth album following his 2009 debut, The Two Sides of Tim Cohen (Empty Cellar), and two full-lengths (Laugh Tracks / Tim Cohen's Magic Trick) and one EP (Bad Blood) on New York's Captured Tracks label.?!  Featuring guest appearances by JOHN DWYER (THEE OH SEES), GRACE COOPER (SANDWITCHES), DIEGO GONZALEZ (GONG, CITAY, JONAS REINHARDT, DRY SPELLS), JOE ROBERTS (BLACK FICTION), AMBER LAMPRECHT (RODRIGUEZ BAND), and STEVE PEACOCK, The Glad Birth of Love is the first Tim Cohen album to not directly bear his name, but the name of his band, MAGIC TRICK. Recorded in a tower at Tim Cohen's home this album marks a departure from his signature radio-ready song craft.?!

Magic Trick

Glad Birth Of Love - Limited Edition

Empty Cellar

***TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS) return with his fourth full-length album, now under his MAGIC TRICK moniker.?! Four extended tracks running 43-minutes featuring Magic Trick members NOELLE CAHILL, ALICIA VANDEN HEUVEL, and JAMES KIM, with guest contributions from JOHN DWYER (THEE OH SEES), GRACE COOPER (SANDWITCHES), DIEGO GONZALEZ (GONG, CITAY, JONAS REINHARDT, DRY SPELLS), JOE ROBERTS (BLACK FICTION), AMBER LAMPRECHT (RODRIGUEZ BAND), and STEVE PEACOCK.?! Limited edition pressing of 100 copies released for Tim’s birthday (July 19), packaged with a limited edition art print by KEVIN EARL TAYLOR..?!