false 2024-02-04 08:02:04 Distortion 7.2 2008 2008-01-15 2008-01-15 39 Alternative Rock Indie Pop Pop Rock 126773 2196371 ac31ff65-b758-403f-84fe-2ccd915a9906 3ff72a59-f39d-411d-9f93-2d4a86413013 269ad9e8-2efb-32fe-a367-f99feaf9ef4c /media/data/media4/Music/The Magnetic Fields/Distortion (2008)/folder.jpg The Magnetic Fields AlbumArtist The Magnetic Fields Artist The Magnetic Fields The Magnetic Fields 1 Three‐Way 03:00 2 California Girls 03:00 3 Old Fools 03:00 4 Xavier Says 02:40 5 Mr. Mistletoe 02:57 6 Please Stop Dancing 03:00 7 Drive On, Driver 02:49 8 Too Drunk to Dream 02:58 9 Till the Bitter End 03:02 10 I’ll Dream Alone 03:04 11 The Nun’s Litany 02:58 12 Zombie Boy 03:02 13 Courtesans 02:59 The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques) are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. Merritt's lyrics are often about love and feature atypical or neutral gender roles, and are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous. The band released their debut single "100,000 Fireflies" in 1991. The single was typical of the band's earlier career, characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt, with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway (and then by Stephin Merritt himself, from the House of Tomorrow EP onwards). A more traditional band later materialized; it is now composed of Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, and John Woo, with occasional guest vocals by Shirley Simms. The band's best-known work is the 1999 three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs. It was followed in the succeeding years by a "no-synth" trilogy: i (2004), Distortion (2008), and Realism (2010). The band's latest album, Quickies, was released on May 29, 2020.