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A mystical pilgrimage title in the Celtic / folkloric vein: crossing into Faerie, into the Otherworld, into a land that is physically adjacent to this one but ontologically separate. Continues a thread that runs through "In a Beautiful Place out in the Country" and the Hexagon Sun / pastoral / Music70 aesthetic.
"Magic" here ties to "Acts Of Magic": the album's twin magical titles, one as practice, one as destination.
May also read as the land of the dead (Annwn in Welsh, Tír na nÓg in Irish, Hades in Greek, Sheol in Hebrew) — the other country into which the album descends.