Errors: Have Some Faith In Magic | Album

by Andrew Davies

★★★★

Eighteen months after their last album, Come Down With Me, was released Glaswegian based band Errors return with a slightly uncharacteristic vocal third album.

Known for letting the instruments take lead, Errors’ Have Some Faith In Magic allows the band to really stretch their vocal chords, and create a collection of records that they had always hinted towards making: Errors have just gone and made a pop record.

Musically this band was never going to struggle to create a melody. The first three singles, Tusk, Magna Encarta and Blank Media merge together to create a synth-pop record that would suitably fit into the title sequence of an episode of C.S.I Las Vegas and Pleasure Palaces sounds, and feels, as euphoric as its title.

Although the vocals are some-what hidden behind the beautifully crafted electronic keyboards and computerised percussions, the balance seems perfectly distributed through Canon and Earthscore, whilst Cloud Chamber would have you believing your slowly travelling through the golden gates of Heaven themselves.

Crafting and building this colourful album took time, and although there are pale hints towards their first two albums, the similar six-strings here and there, Errors’ Have Some Faith In Magic’s playful synth lines and soft template grooves has allowed them to put their personal theory into practise: “’Never looking back, always looking forward.’”

Through Have Some Faith In Magic, Errors have eclipsed previous albums by offering something musically intelligent and, simultaneously beautifully memorable.

I wouldn’t just put faith in magic: I’d start to believe.