Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt on Tibet, Gay Marriage and 'Wacky' Religion Stephin Merritt is best known as the deadpan mastermind behind the Magnetic Fields, who will release a new synthesize-heavy album, 'Love at the Bottom of the Sea,' on March 5. The album will be their first for Merge Records since 1999's '69 Love ...
Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt: 'I'm very, very familiar with unrequited love' How long have you had a beard? A few months. I stopped shaving and discovered I was more popular. Maybe people can't see my ordinary, rather dour facial expressions as easily and so they don't seem to think I'm the total jerk they seemed to ...
I still think the only reason why he & nonesuch didn’t release the three operas seperately was to quell comparison with 69 Love Songs (also three discs?). By that I mean physically, not the chintzy, 128kps iTunes release that I somehow am living with currently. All those songs sound soooooo out of context on Showtunes; maybe he wanted to kill his career?
i’ve been a huge stephin merritt since back in the day, but this album is boring, self-indulgent in all the wrong ways, and just plain god-awful. i give stehpin credit for even trying, but something’s wrong here.
You know, he hates being compared to Cole Porter. You wanna get on his good side, compare him to Irving Berlin.
that is one self-indulgent dude.
I still think the only reason why he & nonesuch didn’t release the three operas seperately was to quell comparison with 69 Love Songs (also three discs?). By that I mean physically, not the chintzy, 128kps iTunes release that I somehow am living with currently. All those songs sound soooooo out of context on Showtunes; maybe he wanted to kill his career?
wow i’ve been waiting to hear this. i LOVE the second song. mmmm new stephin merrit.
pfork just gave a 7.3 to the new EODM. you have to be shitting me. what a joke.
i’ve been a huge stephin merritt since back in the day, but this album is boring, self-indulgent in all the wrong ways, and just plain god-awful. i give stehpin credit for even trying, but something’s wrong here.