Magic (Smash Mouth album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Magic
| type = studio
| artist = Smash Mouth
| cover = Smash Mouth - Magic album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 4, 2012
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 33:24
| label = 429
| producer = Mike Krompass
| prev_title = Summer Girl
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Missile Toes
| next_year = 2023
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Magic
| type = Studio
| single1 = Magic
| single1date = August 14, 2012
}}
}}
Magic is the seventh studio album by American rock band Smash Mouth, released on September 4, 2012 through 429 Records. It is their first album in six years since the release of Summer Girl in 2006. It is also the first album without original guitarist and primary songwriter Greg Camp since his departure from the band, and the last album to feature lead vocalist Steve Harwell before his retirement in 2021 and his death in 2023.
The first single on the album, "Magic", peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/smash-mouth/chart-history/asi/ |title=Smash Mouth Chart History: Adult Contemporary |magazine=Billboard |accessdate=June 29, 2020}}
Reception
AllMusic gave the album 3½ stars, saying it was "as effortlessly effervescent as anything else Smash Mouth has ever released, filled with grooving, organ-fueled beach party anthems".{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r0002411280|pure_url=yes}}|title=Magic|author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |publisher=AllMusic}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
|headline=Magic track listing
|title1 = Perfect Planet
|writer1 = {{hlist|Steve Harwell|Mike Krompass|Shelly Peiken}}
|length1 = 2:36
|title2 = Live to Love Another Day
|writer2 = {{hlist|Randy Cooke|Harwell|Krompass|Jim McCormick}}
|length2 = 2:41
|title3 = Magic
|note3 = featuring J. Dash
|writer3 = {{hlist|Cooke|J. Dash|Harwell|Krompass|Tebey Ottoh|Jennifer Paige}}
|length3 = 2:59
|title4 = Justin Bieber
|writer4 = {{hlist|Harwell|Krompass|Peiken}}
|length4 = 2:33
|title5 = Out of Love
|writer5 = {{hlist|Andrew Fromm|Harwell|Krompass|Peiken}}
|length5 = 3:35
|title6 = Flippin' Out
|note6 = featuring J. Dash
|writer6 = {{hlist|J. Dash|Fromm|Harwell|Krompass}}
|length6 = 3:00
|title7 = Future X Wife
|writer7 = {{hlist|Fromm|Harwell|Krompass|Peiken}}
|length7 = 2:29
|title8 = Better with Time
|writer8 = {{hlist|Harwell|Krompass|Peiken}}
|length8 = 3:14
|title9 = The Game
|writer9 = {{hlist|Fromm|Harwell|Krompass|Peiken}}
|length9 = 2:36
|title10 = She's Into Me
|writer10 = {{hlist|Harwell|Scott Krippayne|Ron Robinson|Brodie Stewart}}
|length10 = 3:20
|title11 = Don't You (Forget About Me)
|note11 = Simple Minds cover
|writer11 = {{hlist|Keith Forsey|Steve Schiff}}
|length11 = 4:21
}}
Personnel
Smash Mouth
- Steve Harwell – lead vocals
- Michael Klooster – keyboards
- Mike Krompass – additional keyboards, guitars, drum programming, backing vocals{{Cite AV media notes |id=FTN 17906 |title=Magic |others=Smash Mouth |publisher=429 Records |year=2012 |type=liner notes}}
- Greg Camp – guitars (11), backing vocals (11)
- Paul De Lisle – bass, backing vocals
- Randy Cooke – drums
- Michael Urbano – drums (11)
Additional personnel
- John Portela – additional keyboards
- J. Dash – vocals (3, 6)
- Andrew Fromm – backing vocals
- Storm Gardiner – backing vocals
- Shawn Mayer – backing vocals
- Jennifer Paige – backing vocals
- Stephen Vickers – backing vocals
= Production =
- Jared Levine – A&R
- Mike Krompass – producer, engineer, mixing
- Ben Harrington – assistant engineer, mix assistant
- Steve Murr – additional recording
- Dave McNair – mastering
- David Alan Kogut – art direction
- Calibree Photography – photography
- Robert Hayes – management
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpbEBCQfpmYGIaHSkNRfXLfA_Lp05Ncjs Magic] at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
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