Majical Cloudz – Downtown

Album

Are You Alone? is the fourth and final studio album from Canadian pop duo Majical Cloudz, released on October 16, 2015 on Matador Records.

The album was nominated for a Juno Award in 2016.

Critical reception

Are You Alone? received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Mike Powell of Pitchfork gave the album a positive review, stating,

"Like Impersonator, Alone is a sad album, but its sadness is a kind of tall tale, the details of which are overblown for dramatic effect. At times its lyrics sound less like expressions of personal darkness than advertisements for darkness in general, written in lettering so big you could read it from the highway."

Powell continues,

"Alone is less stripped-down than Impersonator, but it feels less confrontational, too. The band recently went on tour opening for Lorde, and seem to have figured out how to broaden their sound while softening it at the same time, all without losing the detonating high that made Impersonator so remarkable.

Songs like "So Blue" and "Downtown"—both standouts—are easy to imagine as more fully fleshed out pieces of music, conveying size without occupying space. Like photographic negatives, you can still see the image but the inversion of blacks and whites lends it a kind of alien melancholy."

Artist

Majical Cloudz was a Canadian music group from Montreal consisting of singer-songwriter Devon Welsh, and variously Matthew E. Duffy and Matthew Otto. The group disbanded in March 2016.

Nothing you say
Will ever be wrong
'Cause it just feels good being in your arms

And I'm running with you
As fast as I can
Singing to myself I wanna hold your hand

And we're going downtown
'Cause we feel like running around
Is it really this fun when you're on my mind?
Is it really this cool to be in your life?

There's one thing I'll do
If it ever goes wrong
I'll write you into my all of my songs

And if suddenly I die
I hope they will say
That he was obsessed and it was okay

'Cause we're going downtown
And we feel like running around
Is it really this fun when you're on my mind?
Is it really this cool to be in your life?

And I'm going crazy
Crazy for you
I'm going crazy
Crazy for you
I'm going crazy
Crazy for you
I'm going crazy
Crazy for you
For you

niente di quello che dici
sarà mai sbagliato
perchè è bello stare tra le tue braccia

e io sto correndo con te
più veloce che posso
cantando tra me e me voglio tenere la tua mano

e stiamo andando in centro città
perché ci sembra di correrci intorno
è davvero divertente quando sei nella mia mente
è davvero fantastico essere nella tua vita

c'è una cosa che farò
se mai andasse storta
ti scriverò in tutte le mie canzoni

e se improvvisamente morissi
spero che diranno
che era ossessionato e che ciò era giusto

perché noi stiamo andando in centro città
e ci sembra di correre intorno
è davvero divertente quando sei nella mia mente
è davvero fantastico essere nella tua vita

e sto diventando matto
matto per te
sto diventando matto
matto per te
sto diventando matto
matto per te
sto diventando matto
matto per te
per te