''Seek Magic'' is the debut studio

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by American musician Dayve Hawke under the alias Memory Tapes. It was released on August 24, 2009 by the label Something in Construction. The cover art features an image of the painting ''Mirage'' by Tomory Dodge.

Reception

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, ''Seek Magic'' received an

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score of 86, based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The album has an 8.0 rating on review aggregator website AnyDecentMusic? and is certified an "ADM Chart Topper". ''Seek Magic'' was awarded the title of "Best New Music" by ''

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'', with critic Ian Cohen praising the album as "achingly gorgeous

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that captures both the joy of nostalgia and the melancholic sense that we're grasping for good times increasingly out of reach". In a 2019 retrospective piece on

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for ''

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'', Cohen cited ''Seek Magic'' as "probably the best" chillwave album released in 2009, "and, by definition, probably the greatest chillwave album of all time".

Track listing

Notes *On vinyl pressings of the album, the running order of "Pink Stones" and "Stop Talking" is reversed.

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