If you\u2019ve been sleeping on Magic Wands, consider this your wake-up call \u2014 delivered via moonlight, underground tunnels and a healthy dose of gothic atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The LA-based dream-pop duo have just dropped a Delerium remix of their 2025 track Moonshadow<\/em>, and it\u2019s exactly the kind of collaboration that makes you stop whatever you\u2019re doing and just listen. The original appeared on their October album \u2018Cascades\u2019 \u2014 a record that critics described as \u201ca slow, smoky invocation<\/em>\u201d and awarded 4.5\/5 \u2014 but Canadian ambient electronic duo Delerium have now taken the track somewhere altogether more otherworldly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDelerium have taken it to another dimension,<\/em>\u201d say Magic Wands. \u201cTheir remix has a haunting quality that fits perfectly.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Hard to argue with that. Delerium\u2019s Rhys Fulber describes the process as finding \u201ca perfect meeting place between the vibes of older Delerium and the stargazing guitar sounds of Magic Wands<\/em>\u201d \u2014 and if that sentence doesn\u2019t make you hit play immediately, we don\u2019t know what will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As for the song itself? Magic Wands say it was inspired by Dracula, the moon and the feeling of riding an underground train late at night. Which honestly explains everything about why it sounds the way it does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The remix is lifted from a Magic Wands remix EP due out in June, so this is just the appetiser. The duo have already been busy in 2026 \u2014 Sacred Mirrors<\/em>, a collaboration with Psychedelic Furs guitarist John Ashton, arrived in January, followed by Wishing Well<\/a><\/em> in February. Not a bad run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Originally formed in Nashville by vocalists and guitarists Dexy and Chris Valentine, Magic Wands have built their sound around heavily textured guitars, synth drones and ethereal vocals \u2014 a world where shoegaze, dream-pop, post-punk and goth all blur together into something that feels, as one critic put it, \u201cboth familiar and foreign<\/em>.\u201d Cascades leans into that fully, threading gothic romance and centuries-old poetry through its DNA while bridging the gap between their 2012 debut Aloha Moon and where they are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stream Moonshadow (Delerium Remix)<\/em> below, and keep an eye on that June EP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n