''No Thyself'' is the fifth and final studio album by the band

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, and the first since their 2009 reformation. It was released on the Wire-Sound label on 24 October 2011, about 30 years after the release of their previous studio album, '' Magic, Murder and the Weather''. Bass guitarist

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, while still remaining a member of Magazine, did not participate in the making of ''No Thyself'' due to prior obligations in film music. Guitarist

John McGeoch John Alexander McGeoch (25 August 1955 – 4 March 2004) was a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist of the rock bands Magazine (1977-1980) and Siouxsie and the Banshees (1980-1982). He has been described as one of ...

had died in 2004. Both musicians were important in previous lineups.

Pete Shelley Pete Shelley (born Peter Campbell McNeish; 17 April 1955 – 6 December 2018) was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He formed early punk band Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto in 1976, and became the lead singer and guitarist in 1977 wh ...

, who had founded

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with Magazine singer

Howard Devoto Howard Devoto (born Howard Andrew Trafford, 15 March 1952) is a retired English singer and songwriter, who began his career as the frontman for punk rock band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, one of the first post-punk bands. After Ma ...

, co-writing early Buzzcocks material and one Magazine song together, contributed to the writing of the first track. The album cover features the painting ''The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops'' by French artist

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Reception

The

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rated the album 9 out of 10, saying: "The surprise excellence of the songs and the music makes this the long-overdue fourth great Magazine album. Thirty years ago, Howard Devoto sang of wanting to burn again. And here he is, doing exactly that." ''

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'' gave it 8 of 10 and said: "''No Thyself'' could be the fourth album they should have made instead of 1981's ''Magic, Murder and the Weather'', which badly missed departed John McGeoch. Here, guitarist Noko and bassist John "Stan" White (replacing Barry Adamson, who had film commitments) help recapture the sonic blueprint laid down on the first three classic albums". ''

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'' (in the print edition only) gave it 8 of 10 and said: "In 10 crisp, playful songs restores the exalted standards of the band's legend" (referring to the standard 10-track edition).

Track listing

All lyrics by Howard Devoto, except where indicated. All music by Devoto, Doyle, Formula and Noko, except where indicated.

Variants

*WIRED 18 – 11-track special edition with bonus track "Blisterpack Blues" *WIRED 19 – standard 10-track version *WIRED 22 – 10-track 12" vinyl LP version *WIRED 17 – limited edition 10" vinyl single "Hello Mister Curtis (With Apologies)" backed with "Holy Dotage"

Personnel

– vocals * John Doyle – drums *

Dave Formula Dave Formula (born David Tomlinson 11 August 1946, Whalley Range, Manchester, England), is an English keyboardist and film-soundtrack composer from Manchester, who played with the post-punk bands Magazine and Visage during the end of the 1970s ...

– keyboards * Norman Fisher-Jones (also known as Noko) – guitar and backing vocals * Jonathan "Stan" White – bass guitar and backing vocals * Christine Hanson – cello and strings on "Final Analysis Waltz" *

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– backing vocals * Mixed by Mike Nielsen at Strongroom Studio3, London

Chart positions

References

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