With his many bands and permutations (Fresh and Onlys, Window Twins, Black Fiction, and more), San Francisco's Tim Cohen has always had a lighter, raggedy, neo-folk flavor. With Magic Trick, Cohen goes to full-bore, prog-rock psychedelia. The opening track has a little of the jaunty pop sweetness we’ve come to expect from him, and it starts off feeling like an affectionate nod to the king of melancholic love songs, Leonard Cohen. That’s all before the 10-minute mark, where the song turns into a dreamy Middle Eastern drone. “Daylight Moon” is where we start to get our bearings: hushed, spooky gongs and acoustic guitars pave the way to synths and guitars dipped in so many kaleidoscopic effects that the listener feels a bit woozy. Of course, it’s brilliant. Friends from Thee Oh Sees, Citay, and Sandwitches make appearances (that’s Grace Cooper’s lilting background coo). There's warm hand percussion, fluttery woodwinds, and fingerpicking acoustic and pinwheeling neon guitars in this glorious, surprisingly unmessy collection that Cohen fans won’t want to miss.