Press
“World Without Magic frontman Patrick Bower has the kind of voice you don’t hear much around Brooklyn. It’s a deep, grainy croon that lets emotion flow from melody, not inflection. The mood he conjures is seductive and eerie — the title of a recent EP, The Dark Lord (of Love), pretty much sums it up. Playing solo or with his versatile sideman Darren Will, he can evoke Nick Cave with an understated but nonetheless wicked sense of humor; fleshed out with drums, keys and strings, his sound can take on a noirish Go-Go swing”
- Beaconpass.com
“’Crooner cósmico’ neoyorquino, Patrick Bower suena a heredero de pintorescos genios melódicos como Nilsson y Scott Walker… Su voz profunda y directa llega y conmueve a través de canciones que calan, impregnadas de suave psicodelia nocturna y sesentera aderezada con ciertos destellos oscuros propios quizá de los 80….”
- Luis dB, Radio 3 – Islas de Robinson
“La presse étrangère s’est déjà largement amourachée de cette joyeuse bande. Patrick Bower et sa musique évoquent ainsi des références comme Leonard Cohen, Syd Barret, Serge Gainsbourg ou encore Emile Zola. Rien que ça ! La vérité, c’est qu’à la découverte de cet univers, les mots manquent un peu. Ce qui est chouette, c’est qu’on se sent presque instantanément comme chez soi.”
- Tadah ! Blog
“Troubadour Patrick Bower, along with his band The World Without Magic, weaves a tale that lives up to its name with the track “The Dark Lord (of Love).” It’s scintillating dark pop that brings to mind Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg and Harry Nilsson.”
- Plug In Music
“When Bower sings “Why am I bleeding at the jaw? I have kissed her and paid so dearly for it,” you are aware that Bower approaches the sacred right of love like Emile Zola did to the human condition.”
- Zaptown Magazine
“The Dark Lord (of Love) throws in some really catchy hand claps, which is a total head fuck in a song that otherwise sounds like day four of a meth binge, but it works. It’s creepy-catchy and simplistically haunting, yet enticing, like a nightmare with lots of nudity.”
- No Depression
“Stylishly moody indie folk”
- Time Out New York
” … lush, bearded folk”
- Brooklyn Vegan
“The pop songwriting is brilliantly disciplined; parts and feelings are meticulously arranged like the adornments of aVictorian parlour room.”
- The Deli Magazine
