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Now, you're possibly wondering what's so very different musically about these devices, I mean you're still going to need to put your music into them, and then play it back, right? Nu-uh! The astonishing thing about these devices is that you only have to think about the kind of music you're in the mood to hear, and lo, it shall suddenly appear in your ears. No need for troublesome headphones either, as a special psycho-acoustic beam will broadcast directly into your mind.

Now, assuming one of these amazing devices fell through a freak worm-hole in the very fabric of space and time itself, and you got your hands on it and managed to figure out how it works...if you decided one morning that what you really wanted to hear was a Magic Numbers-y sort of a song. Like the kind of Magic Numbers song that only the Magic Numbers could do, but not one of their more attention-grabbing songs, cos you've a magazine you want to read while you listen. Well, this is pretty much what you'd get.

Or, to put it another way, remember 'Forever Lost'? So do the Magic Numbers.

Oh, one more thing about the future...once all the musical work has been done for them, a nation's pop youth will grow up idolising dentists instead of singers. This is because, as they say, music is all very well, a but a good set of teeth should last a lifetime.

Released: February 19th

(Fraser McAlpine)