Coldplay’s recently released Ghost Stories found the soaring quartet edging ever closer toward dusky electronic experimentation, and today, a remix of “Magic” by London duo AlunaGeorge functions as a logical extension of the ideas they explored on that record.
Though Aluna Francis and George Reid favor a boisterous sort of electro-pop on their own material, their careful rework of “Magic” stays in the realm of the subdued original, augmenting Chris Martin’s glassy-eyed vocal take with glittery synth lines and the duo’s familiar bassy thrum. Between those instrumental additions and Francis’ stuttering background vocal, the duo is able to turn the post-Kid A power ballad into delirious, yet danceable, body music.
This remix comes in advance of two dates that AlunaGeorge will play with Coldplay this week on July 1 and 2 at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
