Magdalena Bay’s Nice Day: A Collection of Singles arrives April 17 as a formal gathering of the eight singles they’ve been releasing in pairs since September 2025. The six previously released tracks plus two new ones, packaged on four 7″ vinyl records as a deluxe box set, constitute a kind of extended statement about what they’ve been doing since Imaginal Disk in 2024.

The singles have been consistently excellent, which makes the collection less a compensation for an album absence and more a deliberate mode of working. “Second Sleep” and “Star Eyes” opened the run with the kind of lush, maximalist synth-pop that made Imaginal Disk one of the most talked-about records of 2024. “Human Happens” and “Paint Me A Picture” pushed further into conceptual territory. “Unoriginal” and “Black-Eyed Susan Climb” arrived later in 2025 with the same care.

Mica Tenenbaum and Matt Lewin have built one of the most distinctive aesthetics in contemporary pop, somewhere between dream logic and precision engineering, and the collection format suits them. The idea that eight songs released across eight months constitute a single conceptual arc is exactly the kind of structural thinking that runs through everything they do.

The collection is described as a spiritual successor to Imaginal Disk rather than its follow-up. A new full-length is reportedly in progress for potential 2027 release. For now, Nice Day is the record you need.

Nice Day: A Collection of Singles is out April 17 on vinyl and digital.