''Super Magick'' is the ninth studio album from the

New Orleans New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...

–based

rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wale ...

group

Better Than Ezra 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 (vocals and guitar), Tom Drummond (bas ...

, released on May 3, 2024. It is the band's first album in 10 years. The alternative rock album is produced by frontman

Kevin Griffin Kevin Michael Griffin (born October 1, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Better Than Ezra, with whom he has released nine studio albums. He has also issued one s ...

and

Emery Dobyns Emery Dobyns is an American recording engineer, record producer, and songwriter, formerly based in Manhattan in New York City, but now based in Nashville. Dobyns won a Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Grammy Award for engineering ''Beauty & C ...

and was recorded at Pink Deer Studios.

Release

On March 8, 2024, it was announced that the album would be released on May 3, 2024. 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". "This Time" was written by Griffin in 2009, though it was originally released on the self-titled debut album of an Italian

operatic pop Operatic pop, pop-opera or popera is a subgenre of pop music that is performed in an operatic singing style or a song, theme or motif from classical music stylized as pop. The subgenre is often performed by classical crossover singers and acts, ...

trio,

Il Volo Il Volo (; ) is an Italians, Italian operatic pop Trio (music), trio, consisting of Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone, and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as "popera". Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, they represented Italy ...

. In between ''All Together Now'' and ''Super Magick'', the group produced several live albums and a few singles. Griffin also released a solo album.

Singles

In 2018, "Grateful" was released as a single, six years before the album. "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.

Track listing

Personnel

Better Than Ezra * Tom Drummond – bass *

– lead vocals (all tracks), acoustic and electric guitars, background vocals (tracks 2–4, 9–12) * James Arthur Payne Jr. – keyboards, synthesizer, piano and electric guitar *

Michael Jerome Michael Jerome Moore, known as Michael Jerome is an American rock musician and drummer. He is a former member of Pop Poppins (1989-1997), the Toadies (1990–91), Course of Empire (1994–1998), and James Hall's band Pleasure Club, which was ...

– drums Additional contributors *

Pete Lyman Pete Lyman is a mastering engineer, and owner of Infrasonic Mastering, an audio and vinyl mastering studio with three locations in United States. He has mastered Grammy-award winning and nominated albums for Chris Stapleton, Tanya Tucker, Jason I ...

– mastering *

Chris Dugan Chris Dugan (born May 11, 1973) is an American audio engineer, cinematographer, record producer, musician, and singer, best known as the drummer of the Effection and as an audio engineer for Green Day. In 2018, along with Green Day members Billie ...

– mixing (tracks 1, 2, 5–10, 12) *

Ryan Hewitt Ryan Michael Hewitt (born January 24, 1991) is a former American football tight end and Fullback (gridiron football), fullback. He played college football at Stanford Cardinal football, Stanford and was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an und ...

– mixing (tracks 3, 4, 11) * Drew Bollman – engineering (tracks 1–8, 10–12) *

Gabe Simon Kopecky (formerly the Kopecky Family Band) is an American indie-rock band formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2007. The band consists of Kelsey Kopecky (vocals, keyboards, and bass), Gabe Simon (vocals, guitar, and horns), Steven Holmes (guitar, ...

– engineering (track 9) * Kristen Rogers – background vocals (tracks 1, 3, 8) *

– background vocals (tracks 4, 8, 12) * Henry Brill – background vocals (track 4)

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 2024 albums Better Than Ezra albums Round Hill Music albums