Mumbo Jumbo (album)

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Mumbo Jumbo
Air Supply Mumbo Jumbo Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released4 May 2010
Recorded2008–2010[ citation needed ]
StudioOddson Studios Woodland Magic
Genre Soft rock
Length1:01:58
Label A Nice Pear
Producer Graham Russell
Air Supply chronology
Across the Concrete Sky
(2003)
Mumbo Jumbo
(2010)
Singles from Mumbo Jumbo
  1. "Dance with Me"
    Released: 2010
  2. "Faith in Love"
    Released: 2010

Mumbo Jumbo is the seventeenth studio album by English-Australian soft rock duo Air Supply, released in 2010. Two singles from the album, "Dance with Me" and "Faith in Love", became top-30 hits on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. [1] The band's first studio record in seven years, it was the third album released on the Graham Russell label A Nice Pear/Odds On Records.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt the band "employs some smoke and mirrors on this album, perhaps more than any of their previous albums, dabbling with a variety of textures and rhythms." At the end of his review on this album, he called it "their most adventurous records, and one of their best works." [2]

Track listing

All songs written by Graham Russell, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Setting the Seen" 5:26
2."Dance with Me"Russell, Frankie Moreno5:35
3."A Little Bit of Everything" 3:58
4."Hold On" 4:42
5."A Little Bit More" 4:48
6."Alternate Ending"Russell, Lightfoot4:36
7."I Won't Let It Get in the Way"Russell, Moreno4:19
8."Why" 4:12
9."Me Like You"Russell, Moreno3:13
10."Mumbo Jumbo"Russell, Lightfoot4:02
11."Faith in Love" 4:30
12."Can I Be Your Lover" 5:18
13."Lovesex"Russell, Moreno4:06
14."Until"Russell, Moreno3:18
Total length:1:01:58

Personnel

Air Supply

Additional musicians

Production

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References

  1. "Air Supply Chart History".
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Mumbo Jumbo – Air Supply". AllMusic . All Media Guide . Retrieved 6 April 2022.