Label: Teichicu Records Co. Ltd. (Japan), TECP-18009
Style: Hard Rock, Hard Pop
Country: London, England
Time: 37:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 258 Mb
The
Magician's Birthday received mixed reviews from contemporary critics.
Mike Saunders, writing for Creem, called the album "a package full of
dreck", finding the first side of the LP "listenable" despite poor
production and side two downright "irritating". Village Voice critic
Robert Christgau described the songs on the album as "third-hand heavy
metal fantasies (...) hooked to some clean, powerful arrangements, and a
good melody or two."
Modern reviews are more positive. AllMusic
reviewer remarked the album's prog elements and wrote that "The
Magician's Birthday never quite hits the consistent heights of Look at
Yourself or Demons and Wizards, but remains a solid listen for Uriah
Heep fans". Joe Geesein of Record Collector praised the musicians and
the good sound of the album's reissue, but wrote that most of the songs
"don't stand up quite out so well" in comparison with opener "Sunrise"
or the single "Spider Woman". Canadian journalist Martin Popoff called
The Magician's Birthday "another colourful, mystical journey", although
"somewhat disjointed, less accessible and in total much less metallic"
than previous efforts, "culminating in the band's most harrowing,
nightmarish epic of them all, the ten minute title track."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician%27s_Birthday)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Sunrise (04:06)
02. Spider Woman (02:29)
03. Blind Eye (03:36)
04. Echoes In The Dark (04:53)
05. Rain (04:02)
06. Sweet Lorraine (04:17)
07. Tales (04:10)
08. The Magician's Birthday (10:21)
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