Name: Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
Brand: The Magnetic Fields

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2019-12-13

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The Magnetic Fields

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Merge

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Indie Pop / Shoegaze

The Magnetic Fields is an American indie pop group founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt serves as the primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist for the band. The Magnetic Fields is known for their malleable musical style, which encompasses genres such as synthpop, indie pop, and noise pop. Merritt's lyrics often explore themes of love with a touch of irony, humor, and bitterness. The band has also spawned various side-projects including The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and The Gothic Archies.
Named after the novel "Les Champs Magnétiques," The Magnetic Fields was established as a platform for Stephin Merritt's exceptional songwriting skills. With his versatility as a multi-instrumentalist in addition to being the main creative force behind the band's music production process, Merritt has crafted a distinct sound that defies easy categorization.
While their songs span various subgenres within the realm of pop music, it is primarily their catchy synthpop-infused melodies and cleverly crafted lyrics that have garnered them recognition. Often exploring unconventional gender roles through his songwriting approach, Merritt's lyrics are both thought-provoking and entertaining.

after putting out three synthesizer-free albums, the magnetic fields return 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 angeles, san francisco and new york with merritt's usual cast of collaborators: claudia gonson, sam davol, john woo, shirley simms, johny blood and daniel handler. 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.

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