The Magnetic Fields Love at the Bottom of the Sea

Genre: Pop Label: Domino Catalog Number: WIGCD285 Released On: 05.03.2012

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Artist: The Magnetic Fields Title: Love at the Bottom of the Sea Release: 2012-03-05 Cat#: WIGCD285 Label: Domino P&C: Domino Recording Co. Ltd.

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS RELEASE LOVE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - Domino - MARCH 5

“[The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt is] a contrarian pop genius.” —The New York Times

The Magnetic Fields’ Love at the Bottom of the Sea will be released by Domino on March 5. The band’s tenth full-length album is their first release of new material for Domino, who have previously reissued some of their classic period albums and Stephin Merritt’s recent Obscurities collection. The Magnetic Fields will be celebrating the release of Love at the Bottom of the Sea with an appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties UK on 11 March, a performance at The Royal Festival Hall in London on the 25th of April, and a short tour of the UK and Ireland to follow

After putting out three synthesizer-free albums, The Magnetic Fields are returning to the signature mix of synth and acoustic sounds they established in the 90s with releases such as The Charm of the Highway Strip and Get Lost. Stephin Merritt has come back to synths with a fresh approach: “Most of the synthesizers on the record didn’t exist when we were last using synthesizers,” he notes. The songs — none over three minutes long — were recorded in Los

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The Magnetic Fields’ debut album Distant Plastic Trees was released in 1991. In 1999, The Magnetic Fields’ three-CD collection, 69 Love Songs, established Stephin Merritt as one of his generation’s most talented songwriters. That breakthrough was followed by the albums: i in 2004, Distortion in 2008 and Realism in 2010. Between Magnetic Fields releases, Merritt has recorded side projects and albums with his various other bands, Future Bible Heroes, the Gothic Archies and the 6ths, as well as soundtracks to the films Eban and Charley and Pieces of April. In 2006, Merritt also released a collection of songs written under the name The Gothic Archies to accompany the Lemony Snicket books, The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2009, Merritt scored the Off-Broadway adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel Coraline. Domino released Obscurities, a collection of Stephin Merritt’s previously hard-to-find early recordings in 2011. http://www.houseoftomorrow.com/

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Track Listing:

01. Your Girlfriend’s Face 2:21 02. Andrew In Drag 2:12 03. God Wants Us To Wait 2:06 04. Born For Love 2:39 05. I’d Go Anywhere With Hugh 2:08 06. Infatuation (With Your Gyration) 2:13 07. The Only Boy In Town 2:35 08. The Machine In Your Hand 2:24 09. Goin’ Back To The Country 2:01 10. I’ve Run Away To Join The Fairies 2:17 11. The Horrible Party 2:07

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