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Magic Hotel is the second album by English band Toploader. It's a follow up to their successful 1999 album Onka's Big Moka. The album title is a reference to the hotel, in which they stayed in Los Angeles when recording the album.

Magic Hotel
Studio album by Toploader
Released	19 August 2002
Recorded	2001-2002
Studio	RAK Studios, London, Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles
Genre	Post-Britpop alternative rock
Length	42:40
Label	S2
Producer	Dave Eringa
Toploader chronology
Onka's Big Moka (1999) Magic Hotel (2002) Dancing in the Moonlight - The Best of Toploader (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Daily Record	(unfavourable)[1]
Evening Standard	(mixed)[2]
The Guardian	[3]
The Mirror	(scathing)[4]
New Straits Times	[5]
NME	(1/10)[6]
Stylus Magazine	(F)[7]

It was released to extreme disapproval by an array of critics and didn't match the same success as their debut. Because of this they were dropped by S2 Records, shortly after the band split up and didn't reform until 2009.

Track listing

1. "Time of My Life" – 03:35
2. "Cloud 9" – 03:34
3. "Never Forgotten" – 03:31
4. "Leave Me Be" – 03:29
5. "Lady Let Me Shine" – 05:02
6. "Stupid Games" – 03:29
7. "Following The Sun" - 03:08
8. "Only Desire" – 04:03
9. "Promised Tide" – 04:14
10. "The Midas Touch" – 05:27
11. "Some Kind of Wonderful" - 03:13

References

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