Magic Beans by Pegasuses: Review

by admin June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025

Pegasuses’ new single “Magic Beans” is like wandering through a forgotten fairytale with a guitar in one hand and a heart full of old stories. Released on 30th May 2025, this Southampton-based alt/indie folk duo continues to weave vivid imagery with warm texture. The song opens with a simple strumming pattern, unassuming at first, before unfurling into a lush musical experience with guitar, synth, percussion, and haunting vocal harmonies blending in natural synchronicity. Laura Lamb’s thick, soulful, molten voice takes centre stage, rich with feeling but never overwrought, while Dave Miatt’s husky vocals wrap around hers like dusk settling over the sea.

The quiet theatricality in the track’s build. The music is in its element as the steady thump mimick a heartbeat, synths rise like fog, and warm layers of swelling sound give the track a low-key cinematic pull. By the time you hear the gentle chuff of a train and ghostlike snippets of crowd chatter at the song’s end, you’re transported.

Lyrically, “Magic Beans” reads like a folk fable turned sideways. It tells tales of shipyards, anvil workers, carnies, and kings with no clothes, all tinged with a sense of fortune and fate gone askew. Lines like “They dance around the board these figurines / The world is all a hill of magic beans” give the song a surreal, symbolic edge that relates to power, illusion, and absurdity. It’s poetic without being pretentious, whimsical without losing depth.

Produced and mixed by Russell Marsden (of Band of Skulls) and featured on their upcoming debut album Sea of Joy, this track highlights Pegasuses’ knack for blending rich, old-world storytelling with grounded, contemporary folk sounds. “Magic Beans” may be about being in the wrong place at the right time, but for Pegasuses, it’s a right move at just the right moment.