The Magic Position is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf.

The album features collaborations with Marianne Faithfull and Edward Larrikin of Larrikin Love as well as backing vocals by Wolf's sister Jo Apps and also bass and alto clarinet instrumentation by Derek Apps.

[11] Slant Magazine named The Magic Position the best album of 2007.

[13] The Magic Position received general acclaim from music critics.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 27 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".