Killian Fox 

The Magic Numbers: The Runaway

The Magic Numbers conjure folk-pop with moments of quiet beauty, says Kilian Fox
  
  

Michelle Stodart, Romeo Stodart, Angela Gannon, Sean Gannon
The Magic Numbers, made up of siblings Michelle and Romeo Stodart, left, and Angela and Sean Gannon, right. Photograph: Jack Plunkett/AP Photograph: Jack Plunkett/AP

The Stodart and Gannon siblings – collectively the Magic Numbers – like to do things at their own pace. After their second album, Those the Brokes, they paused for a four-year breather. Now, the nice guys of English folk-pop have drifted back with a third album which, contrary to its title, is a decidedly unrushed affair. The Runaway may not be the year's most thrilling release, but it is finely crafted (with production from Valgeir Sigurdsson and string arrangements by the late Robert Kirby) and its low-key, melancholy mood yields moments of quiet beauty.

 

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