false 2024-02-04 03:59:18 Realism 2010 2010-01-26 2010-01-26 33 Alternative Rock Art Rock Chamber Pop Indie Pop Indie Rock Lo-Fi Pop Psychedelic Folk Rock 126773 2196373 c1b06c7b-9d71-390c-8321-35e5db04e067 3ff72a59-f39d-411d-9f93-2d4a86413013 3047bb37-5e57-4d7f-adeb-9e6222f4d34a /media/data/media4/Music/The Magnetic Fields/Realism (2010)/folder.jpg The Magnetic Fields AlbumArtist The Magnetic Fields Artist The Magnetic Fields The Magnetic Fields 1 You Must Be out of Your Mind 03:12 2 Interlude 02:11 3 We Are Having a Hootenanny 02:10 4 I Don’t Know What to Say 02:29 5 The Dolls’ Tea Party 02:17 6 Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree 02:24 7 Walk a Lonely Road 03:04 8 Always Already Gone 02:40 9 Seduced and Abandoned 02:21 10 Better Things 02:31 11 Painted Flower 02:11 12 The Dada Polka 02:21 13 From a Sinking Boat 03:26 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.