| The Black Magic Show | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Elefant |
| Cover: | The Black Magic Show.jpeg |
| Released: | April 20, 2006 |
| Genre: | Post-punk revival, indie rock |
| Length: | 41:41 |
| Label: | Kemado • Hollywood |
| Producer: | Don Gilmore |
| Prev Title: | Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
The Black Magic Show is the second and final album by the American indie rock band Elefant. It peaked at #14 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart.[1]
The third track, "Lolita", is based loosely on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.[2]
The Black Magic Show was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 55 based on 10 reviews.
Writing for AllMusic, MacKenzie Wilson explained: "While this album doesn't do anything drastic on an artistic level, The Black Magic Show does feature some danceable style. A little more sincerity and a little less swagger might have been nice, though."