The Magic Numbers is the self-titled debut album from The Magic Numbers

The Magic Numbers

The Magic Numbers are an English pop rock band comprising two pairs of brothers and sisters from Greenford. The group was formed in 2002, releasing their critically acclaimed debut album titled The Magic Numbers on 13 June 2005...

. It was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize in 2005. Songwriting duties were taken by Romeo Stodart as was much of the musical composition and arrangement. It incorporated the earlier single release of "Hymn for Her" as a hidden track. The album incorporates many folk elements within the main indie sound which resounds throughout. The album also reflects many elements of the writers early chilhood dreams, tales of their love life and desperation of youth. For example Love Me Like You, the most well known single of the album, illustrates the difference of feeling in their love for each other.

Track listing

1. "Mornings Eleven"
2. "Forever Lost"
3. "The Mule"
4. "Long Legs"
5. "Love Me Like You"
6. "Which Way to Happy"
7. "I See You, You See Me"
8. "Don't Give Up the Fight"
9. "This Love"
10. "Wheels on Fire"
11. "Love's a Game"
12. "Try"
    • Try contains hidden track
      Hidden track
      In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...
      
       "Hymn for Her" starting at 7:17

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	June 13, 2005	Heavenly Heavenly Records Heavenly Records, aka Heavenly Recordings, is a London-based record label, distributed by EMI. Founded by Jeff Barrett, a former press officer for Creation Records and many successful indie bands of the time including Happy Mondays, Heavenly Recordings' first releases were 7" and 12" singles for...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	HVNLP53CD
			LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...	HVNLP53
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	August 2, 2005	EMI EMI The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...	CD	312162

Singles

Date	Single	Peak chart positions	B-sides
		UK Chart
23 May 2005	"Forever Lost"	15	Idea of a Feeling" "I Hope You Don't Mind"
8 August 2005	"Love Me Like You"	12	"Drunk on Your Words" "Delphina's Song" "Travelling Souls"
24 October 2005	"Love's a Game"	24	"Keep It in the Pocket" "Last Night I Fell"
16 January 2006	"I See You, You See Me"	20	"Forever Lost" (cover by 'Magic Fractions') "Close Your Eyes" "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" "Crazy in Love"