This Is Our Jam: Majical Cloudz, "What That Was"

Usually when you think of slow-burning bar ballads, bands like The Walkmen or Silver Jews come to mind — acts where hollow-body guitars relay the sounds' nostalgia and disenchantment, and the closest thing to a keyboard is a baby grand piano. Majical Cloudz (a.k.a. Devon Welsh) is a Montreal artist who runs in the same circle as Grimes (he was featured on her track "Nightmusic"), but manages to merge his avant-pop and synth obsessions with the sounds of moldering watering holes and wistfu...