Magic Roundabout has been played on NTS shows including Crossed Wires w/ Amanda Siegel, with Sneaky Feelin first played on 25 March 2022.

One of the many outfits that followed in the wake of U.K. bands in the mid-'80s who combined '60s pop melodies with noisy, lo-fi recording techniques, Manchester's Magic Roundabout's few existing recordings place them somewhere between the clamorously noisy attack of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the fragile tenderness of the . They only released one song while together as a band; their entire recorded output was issued years later by on 7" and LP.

The group formed in 1986, inspired by and ready to play shows even before they had mastered their instruments. Soon after getting a batch of songs together, they shared stages with the likes of , , , and . Their enthusiasm and hooky songs caught the ear of 's Mark Webber, who added the band's songs "She's a Waterfall Part 1" and "She's a Waterfall Part 2" to his 1997 cassette compilation Oozing Through the Ozone Layer. Magic Roundabout recorded more songs, though, even making a video for "Sneaky Feelin'," a hooky stop-start track that could have been their first real single. Instead, the band dissolved before the end of the decade and fell so far off the radar, neither of the two songs that did see the light of day during their brief run ever made it to any of the retrospective compilations that covered the era.

One person who didn't forget them was Ian Masters of the , who years later came into possession of the master tapes for two of the band's songs, the aforementioned "Sneaky Feelin'" and "Song for Gerald Langley." Excited by what he heard, he sent them along to his friend and sometime bandmate Warren Defever, who has a day job mastering recordings at HQ in Detroit. While Defever was playing back his work, label honcho Dave Buick heard and was blown away by the sounds. He decided to release the songs as a single and track down the rest of Magic Roundabout's recordings. The result of the search and reclamation project is Up, a six-track collection that jumbles the band's noise-damaged rockers, moody folk-fuzz janglers, and a nearly 20-minute-long experimental track that would do proud. The album was released in September 2021 on . ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi