It's Complicated Being a Wizard

EP by Portugal. The Man

Released

February 27, 2007

Genre

Experimental rock, electronica

Length

45:58

Label

Approaching AIRballoons

Portugal. The Man chronology

Devil Say I, I Say AIR
(2006)

It's Complicated Being a Wizard
(2007)

My Mind
(2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	8.3/10^[1]
Sonic Frontiers	8.2/10^[2]

It's Complicated Being a Wizard is Portugal. The Man's fifth release, released on February 27, 2007, through Public Music Records. Lead vocalist and chief songwriter, John Gourley, created the album artwork for this as well as all other Portugal. The Man releases.

In an interview with AbsolutePunk, Gourley gave fans an insight into the creation and concept of this mini-album: "It’s Complicated Being a Wizard, I recorded that directly after Waiter was done. And it was just something that I started recording and just snowballed and became eventually 23 minutes, which is really funny because I actually set out to make it 23 minutes long after I got past 10 minutes."^[3]

The name of the album 'It's Complicated Being a Wizard' is in reference to former NBA player, Michael Jordan, whose number was famously 23 (the length in minutes of the title track). Jordan played for the Washington Wizards and was later the owner of the team.

Track listing

Track one is split up into its distinct movements for easy browsing across tracks two through ten (track two being part one of It's Complicated Being a Wizard, track three being part two, and so on).

No.	Title	Length
1.	"It's Complicated Being a Wizard"	23:00
2.	"Opal Magic"	0:50
3.	"Ruby Magic"	4:04
4.	"Sapphire Magic"	2:19
5.	"Amethyst Magic"	2:18
6.	"Emerald Magic"	2:31
7.	"Amber Magic"	3:25
8.	"Gold Magic"	2:27
9.	"Crystal Magic"	1:27
10.	"Black Magic"	3:37
Total length:		45:58

References

↑ "Portugal. The Man - It's Complicated Being a Wizard EP - Album Review". AbsolutePunk. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
↑ http://www.sonicfrontiers.net/php/review-53.html
↑ "Portugal. The Man - 06.26.07 - Interview". AbsolutePunk. Retrieved February 25, 2012.

Portugal. The Man

John Gourley Zachary Carothers Kyle O'Quin Kane Ritchotte Ryan Neighbors Noah Gersh Jason Sechrist Wesley Hubbard Nick Klein Harvey Tumbleson

Studio albums	Waiter: "You Vultures!" (2006) Church Mouth (2007) Censored Colors (2008) The Satanic Satanist (2009) American Ghetto (2010) In the Mountain in the Cloud (2011) Evil Friends (2013)

Other albums	The Majestic Majesty (2009)

Extended plays	Under Waves of the Brown Coat (2005) The Pines & the Devil (2006) Devil Say I, I Say AIR (2006) It's Complicated Being a Wizard (2007) My Mind/Seventeen (2007)

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