I got two more: 2003 mixin magic kitchen and secret spells
And side note did anybody who tasted any of these as a kid actually enjoy them? Cause I was mostly grossed out and disappointed
If I’m not much mistaken I think Mixin Magic might have also been released as Mix & Magic because I’m getting hits for both as 2003 releases when I try to look this up?
Either way I don’t like this at all!!
Secret Spells is also pretty bad but I do find it pretty funny to sell a product to kids that says they can drink witches potions. 
I don’t have a vested interest in the taste of any of these products because if I ever owned any of them (which I don’t think I did) I don’t have any recollection of tasting them.
Also I dont mind at all but I do find it funny how many asks I’m getting about this subject! I’ve blown the lid off something and everyone’s opening up with their own memories of these things
Jared Leibowich — Secret Spells (Bruit Direct Disques)
Jared Leibowich’s songs sound much larger than bedroom pop, with their massed vocals and clanging, chiming guitars. The songwriter, who got his start with Austin bands including the Zoltars and the Infinites, has made an expansive, ebullient solo album here, meriting comparisons to the Papercuts, White Fence and Peel Dream Magazine and, even, once or twice, the Beach Boys in its full multi-tracked, multi-vocaled glory.
Consider, for instance, “Can I Hear Your Story?” a sugar rush of criss-crossing vocals and gauzily irresistible hook. Around Leibowich’s main vocal melody, a chorus of overdubbed descants swirl, filling out the space, as drums pound and guitars exult. It’s such a good song, and so very different from the guy-on-stool-with-guitar-moaning-about-his-love-life standard that solo, self-recorded pop often adheres to.
These are not, in general, confessional songs. The palette is much larger than Leibowich’s personal experiences; it explores imaginative visions that are not quite real. For instance, “Without Fail,” which opens the second side, is a third-person story song about a dangerous pied piper sort of performer. He captures his audience with words and doesn’t let them go. It billows and masses and lilts in soft-focus hookiness, very much in line with Jason Quever’s best work with Papercuts.
A few of the songs rock out a little harder, shaped by sharper guitars and rowdier drums. “Don’t You Fall Down” is one of these, a jagged garage pop gem that punches as hard as it daydreams.
It’s always difficult to put a finger on exactly what makes one album of guitar pop better than another, but this is a good one, eccentric and wistfully pretty and not at all limited by the format. Leibowich is thinking in larger terms — of choirs and orchestras and baroque poetry — and making that stuff out of what’s at hand.
#1285: "I wish there was a movie for the Secret Spells line. As far as I know, it was the only time when Barbie and her friends were depicted as witches."
2023.03.15 | We need more authenticity in our everyday communication; more opportunities to listen to, to weave together and express our poetry, instead of just churning out technicalities and SOPs.
