Stephin Merritt's forthcoming Obscurities is what you'd expect from the title: The 14-track collection features "hard-to-find" recordings from 1994 (circa The Charm of the Highway Strip) to 1999 (69 Love Songs). More specifically, three come from Merritt's "unfinished" musical written with Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snickett), five from Merge-imprinted Magnetic Fields 7"s/records (all should be familiar to old fans), a ...