Album artwork for The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue) by The Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, packaged together as a two-LP set. Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later noted that “this tinny and intimate recording, in quiet defiance of the reigning roar of pop music, recalls both the early, scratchy field recordings of folk music and the first experiments in electronic music - precisely the sort of stylistic balance the Magnetic Fields liked to achieve.” The album includes the early-’90s college radio single 100,000 Fireflies which had earlier appeared as a single on Harriet Records and was later covered by Superchunk. The album artwork on both Distant Plastic Trees and The Wayward Bus was created by watercolorist Wendy Smith.

The Magnetic Fields

The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue)

Merge Records
Album artwork for The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue) by The Magnetic Fields
CD

£12.99

Released 13/12/2019Catalogue Number

MRG075CD

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Album artwork for The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue) by The Magnetic Fields
LPx2

£22.99

With Obi Strip.

Black
Includes download code
Released 13/12/2019Catalogue Number

MRG075LP

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The Magnetic Fields

The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue)

Merge Records
Album artwork for The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue) by The Magnetic Fields
CD

£12.99

Released 13/12/2019Catalogue Number

MRG075CD

Learn more
Album artwork for The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue) by The Magnetic Fields
LPx2

£22.99

With Obi Strip.

Black
Includes download code
Released 13/12/2019Catalogue Number

MRG075LP

Learn more

The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, packaged together as a two-LP set. Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later noted that “this tinny and intimate recording, in quiet defiance of the reigning roar of pop music, recalls both the early, scratchy field recordings of folk music and the first experiments in electronic music - precisely the sort of stylistic balance the Magnetic Fields liked to achieve.” The album includes the early-’90s college radio single 100,000 Fireflies which had earlier appeared as a single on Harriet Records and was later covered by Superchunk. The album artwork on both Distant Plastic Trees and The Wayward Bus was created by watercolorist Wendy Smith.