The Magic Position

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The Magic Position
Studio album by Patrick Wolf

Publication
(s)

February 26, 2007 (UK)

Label (s) Loog Records

Format (s)

CD , LP , download

Genre (s)

Folktronica

Title (number)

13

running time

40:40

production

Patrick Wolf

Studio (s)

The Vergers Cottage ( London ), Feedback Studios ( Vienna )

chronology
Wind in the Wires
(2005) 		The Magic Position The Bachelor
(2009)

The Magic Position is the third and most commercially successful studio album by British musician Patrick Wolf . It peaked at number 40 on the UK album charts and number 42 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers in the US .

Recordings

The recording began in the summer of 2005 in the London recording studio The Vergers Cottage and was relocated to the Feedback Studios in Vienna in December 2005 . As a guest singer Edward Larrikin in Accident & Emergency to hear a duet Magpie took Marianne Faithfull the role of Elster. The first mix took place in the summer of 2006 at Eastcote Studios , the first mastering from June 30, 2006 was discarded and repeated on July 7, 2006 by Doug Shearer in the Townhouse studio. The final version was remastered in January 2007. Even before the official release, Wolf presented the album on March 30, 2006 at the Bloomsbury Theater .

Content conception

Stylistically, the album differs significantly from Patrick Wolf's two previous albums, his debut Lycanthropy and its successor Wind in the Wires , through its more cheerful mood. Exemplary of the run by Patrick Wolf (also under pressure from the record company) closer to the mainstream - Pop culture is the title song of the album, which was also the second single from it and made known to the artists to a wider audience.

The artist's distance from his image as a lone wolf or werewolf is already clear on the album's cover picture , where Patrick Wolf rides a carousel that is equipped with several plastic animals. The animal beasts that play important roles in other albums and songs (especially in the debut album Lycanthropy or in the 2009 single Vulture that followed the album ) appear here as tamed children's toys.

Despite the album's relatively great commercial success (# 40 in the British charts), a break between Patrick Wolf and the Loog record company took place shortly afterwards and, as a result, the artist moved away from the mainstream music and turned back to darker sounds.

Track list

  1. Overture - 4:40
  2. The Magic Position - 3:53
  3. Accident & Emergency - 3:17 am
  4. The Bluebell - 1:11
  5. Bluebells - 5:17
  6. Magpie - 3:57
  7. The Kiss - 1:05
  8. Augustine - 4:19
  9. Secret Garden - 1:49
  10. Get Lost - 3:17
  11. Enchanted - 2:07
  12. The Stars - 3:51
  13. Final - 1:57

Singles

The first single from the album was Accident & Emergency with the B-sides Ari's Song (a cover by the singer Nico ), Underworld and Adder . The second single followed Bluebells and the third was The Magic Position with the B-sides The Marriage and the Larrikin Love Cover On Sussex Downs .

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