Hail!Maggiedacat is the name of a musician and producer who allegedly went missing on February 12, 2019. Though her music is said to be inspired by 80s horror movie soundtracks, her single “Details” sounds like a lo-fi mashup of ethereal guitar riffs sampled and overlaid with electronic flute and introspective vocals with which the artist sings a song about her first encounter with the devil before her disappearance. She goes over the things she could wish to be while looking for details in the offer made to her by Old Scratch and asks why she can’t be given what she wants and the devil can take what he needs. Without knowing the subject and the supposed backstory of her management and estate releasing her music posthumously, it’s a song that doesn’t give much away in terms of rooting it in a genre or cultural time frame outside of it likely had to be done after the early 1980s. The electronic percussion is simple and sounds like another sample placed in the mix alongside the subdued bass line. Though the song doesn’t feel incomplete or end abruptly there is an unfinished quality like when a filmmaker dies after somehow having made a final movie and done the editing but didn’t get around to the finishing touches. Listen to the enigmatic song on Soundcloud and follow Hail!Maggiedacat on the project’s Instagram account and watch the mini documentaries about the artist on the YouTube channel.
www.instagram.com/hail_maggiedacat
youtube.com/channel/UC6CDwP8OmDFrEYPwJ62qW7Q
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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