Stephin Merritt’s eighth album with The Magnetic Fields is being released on Monday (January 14) and www.uncut.co.uk has got a couple of clips for you to check out.
The anticipated follow up to 2004’s ‘i’ sees Merritt get more distorted, in a Jesus and Marychain way. Speaking about the album the frontman says: “I don’t know if anyone has done feedback piano before. The whole record has feedback acoustic piano. We put the amplifier directly up against the frame of the piano and turned it up enough to start feeding back.”
You can read Stephen Trousse’s UNCUT review of The Magnetic Fields’ Distortion album by clicking here.
Check out clips from the album by clicking on the links below:
*California Girls – Windows Media
*California Girls – Real Player
*Please Stop Dancing – Windows Media
*Please Stop Dancing – Real Player
‘Distortion”s full track listing is:
‘Three-Way’
‘California Girls’
‘Old Fools’
‘Xavier Says’
‘Mr Mistletoe’
‘Please Stop Dancing’
‘Drive On, Driver’
‘Too Drunk To Dream’
‘Till The Bitter End’
‘I’ll Dream Alone’
‘The Nun’s Litany’
‘Zombie Boy’
‘Courtesans’
Check out The Magnetic Fields’ website for more information at