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| Released | May 3, 2024 | |||
| Studio | Pink Deer | |||
| Length | 41:14 | |||
| Label | Round Hill | |||
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Super Magick is the ninth studio album from the New Orleans-based rock group Better Than Ezra, released on May 3, 2024. It is the band's first album in 10 years. [1] [2]
The alternative rock album is produced by frontman Kevin Griffin and Emery Dobyns and was recorded at Pink Deer Studios. [3]
On March 8, 2024, it was announced that the album would be released on May 3, 2024. [4] The album cover was also revealed, which contains Theban writing of track names: "Mystify", "Contact (High)", "Fuzzy", "Grateful", "Live (A Little)", "Omens", "and Super Magick". [1]
"This Time" was written by Griffin in 2009, though it was originally released on the self-titled debut album of an Italian operatic pop trio, Il Volo. [5]
In between All Together Now and Super Magick, the group produced several live albums and a few singles. Griffin also released a solo album. [6]
In 2018, "Grateful" was released as a single, six years before the album. [7]
"Contact High" and "Mystified" were both released prior to the album's announcement. "Live a Little" was later released as a single ahead of the album.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Mystified" |
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| 3:57 |
| 2. | "Live a Little" |
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| 2:35 |
| 3. | "Show Em Up" |
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| 3:13 |
| 4. | "Super Magick" |
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| 3:56 |
| 5. | "This Time" |
| Marc Scibilia | 3:01 |
| 6. | "Contact High" |
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| 3:49 |
| 7. | "Grateful" |
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| 3:12 |
| 8. | "Sensation" |
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| 4:12 |
| 9. | "Bad Communication" |
| Gabe Simon | 3:24 |
| 10. | "Fuzzy" |
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| 2:58 |
| 11. | "Omens" |
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| 3:21 |
| 12. | "Killing It" |
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| 3:36 |
| Total length: | 41:14 | |||
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Better Than Ezra is an American alternative rock band based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and signed with Round Hill Music. The band formed in 1988 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and consists of Kevin Griffin, Tom Drummond, Michael Jerome (drums), and James Arthur Payne Jr.. The band has released nine studio albums, most recently 2024's Super Magick. They are best known for their 1993 multi-platinum album Deluxe and the 1995 single "Good," which reached number 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Deluxe is a studio album by the alternative rock band Better Than Ezra. It has been released by two labels: the original version in 1993 by Swell Records, and the 1995 version by Elektra Records. This is the group's best known album and contains their biggest single, "Good". It is also their debut major label record, as Surprise was entirely self-released and sold.
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