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In March, we started hearing passing recommendations about a band out of New York called Here We Go Magic. Once you get past the awkward syntax, those recommendations add up. The woozy dream pop that songwriter Luke Temple says to have recorded in a "two month period of stream-of-consciousness recording" is perfect for post-work mental detox and an unsurprising choice as openers for the ethereal, meandering indie rockers Grizzly Bear. Here We Go Magic's self-titled debut finds Temple eschewing the falsetto that he'd used in his former work (which at times sounded an awful lot like Sufjan Stevens) for a more somber tone. Appropriate, considering that the first track, "Only Pieces", asks more existential questions, repeating the line, "What's the use in dying, dying?" The Grizzly Bear/Here We Go Magic bill reaches the 9:30 Club tonight, so we asked Temple a few questions about the evolution of Here We Go Magic from "stream-of-consciousness-recording" to five-piece band.